Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork

According to a post from Raymii dot org, shared on Hacker News, a developer has successfully run Windows two-thousand on DEC Alpha—a sixty-four-bit processor from the nineteen-nineties—using a newly forked version of the es forty emulator. The achievement highlights the hobbyist community's ongoing work to preserve computing history and keep obsolete platforms accessible through modern emulation.

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