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{{for|emulators that run on Windows 9x|Emulators on Legacy systems#Windows 9x}}
By the 90s, PCs with [[POS_(Pong_Consoles)_CPUs_and_Other_ChipsPC_Emulator_Comparisons#Hardware_supportx86_CPU.2C_features_and_peripherals27s|Intel CPUs]] started to break away from the mold of their 16-bit incarnations. It began with Intel taking the helm of the PC platform with the ATX specification, which departed from the PC AT and related models in a number of ways. The rise of PCs also brought with it the bundling of the Windows 9x family of operating systems, which were hybrid 16/32-bit operating systems consisting of Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME; Windows 2000 was based on Windows NT.
Windows 1.0x/2x/3x were graphical user interfaces (GUIs) built on top of MS-DOS. Those were the programs that runs a window manager on top of MS-DOS operating system. Many of the underlying device drivers and protocols had to be loaded in DOS for 3.11 to use them. On the other hand, [[Windows_95/98/ME_emulators|Windows 9x]] (95, 98, ME) were standalone operating systems with DOS compatibility mode. Also [[Emulators_on_Windows|NT3.x]] was an operating system as it included its own micro-kernel and device drivers [http://9gag.com/gag/aGEWOR6?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=comment_share#cs_comment_id=c_170720300873967463].
