KW> Interesting, if Windows 8 could be cut down to run on a laptop of
 KW> this  vintage, I'd be tempted to try it.

what vintage are we talking about? i have an "old" laptop but it
is only a 2Ghz IF that much with 3Gig of RAM... what you have seems to be
newer than that ;)

 KW> What's the state of DOS VDMs in Windows 8 -- does 32-bit Windows 8
 KW> support  16-bit DOS programs?

i suspect it is very much like W7 and there is no DOS VDM support... DOSBOX
or similar would be required...

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