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jamesdhutton ◴[] No.46197832[source]
Genuine question, not being sarcastic: why would someone want/need these downloads?
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hsbauauvhabzb ◴[] No.46198365[source]
I have a legitimate need to replicate systems that are sometimes very legacy for security research (apps that sit on top, rather than the os itself). Building stuff like a base Windows XP image is easy enough, but sometimes system updates are required - even stuff like iirc tls1.2 isn’t supported in IE6
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1. hsbauauvhabzb ◴[] No.46201008[source]
I’ll also add: games and nostalgia.