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A '''Virtual DOS Machine''' ('''VDM'''for short) is a term used by [[Microsoft]] to denote a vm86 machine, a special mode of the [[Intel 80386|i386]] [[CPU]] that would create a virtual [[Intel 8086|8086]] machine.   
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A '''Virtual DOS Machine''' ('''VDM''' for short) is a term used by [[Microsoft]] to denote a vm86 machine, a special mode of the [[Intel 80386|i386]] [[CPU]] that would create a [[virtual machine|virtual]] [[Intel 8086|8086]] machine.   
  
 
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Revision as of 22:33, 18 December 2018

A Virtual DOS Machine (VDM for short) is a term used by Microsoft to denote a vm86 machine, a special mode of the i386 CPU that would create a virtual 8086 machine.