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> Are you saying ReactOS actually works on real hardware?  Shock!

Yes, I did it (first success with version 0.3.15 on my Core 2 Duo desktop). But it may be tricky. I had to unplug USB devices during install and boot because it cause system crash/hang. Also it may require your system to have a floppy drive - I tried to install on a NTB and desktop without floppy and both crashed at floppy.sys driver that probably panicked when found any (who would expect that :)

I also had installed it successfully on my old Pentim Pro PC with 192MB RAM and found that is much more slow and laggy compared to WinNT4 that ran quite smooth. So it disappointed me because I belived it may be good for some old trash PCs if nothing else.

Ver. 0.3.17 brigs some attempt to NTVDM but works very limited.