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Very interesting article, but this stood out to me:

> To re-familiarize myself with this bug [...] I downloaded the broken version [...] and tried it out in some virtual machines. Windows 2000 and XP ran it without any trouble on the first try, but Vista and 7 didn’t [...]

Amazing. Emulating an older system in order to debug emulating an even older system. The amount of compute / memory / storage readily available at our fingertips today is astounding. My first computer was a 68k Mac, and back then, I would never imagine such scenarios would be possible!

[electroly]

The Windows virtual machines aren't emulated; there's still only the one expensive emulation layer going on here.

[bluedino]

First web job I had, there were a pair of barely working Dell computers in a dark corner. They were there to test Windows XP and IE6

I virtualized that crap a couple weeks later.