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		tonyedgecombe 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: VMware Workstation: Bringing Virtualization to the... >Before vmware, was Win4Linux. VMWare Workstation was released in 1999, Win4Lin in 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_Workstation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win4Lin

p_l 6 months ago [–]

Win4Lin was apparently based on Merge, which debuted in 1985. However, at least with Win4Lin, it depended IIRC on specially patching the windows components to run them in the hypervisor.

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