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> XP is (almost) dead and going away, and NTVDM support in newer Windows 
> version is going downhill with every release.

Yes, up to Win8 it was usable some way, Win10 introduced some new NTVDM bugs
http://rayer.g6.cz/windows/win10j.png

> I said it once, and I will repeat it, that DJGPP should care more about what 
> is alive, namely FreeDOS and DOSBox.

Uh, no DOSBox, it's pure pain to compile something with DJGPP via slow Dosbox. But if you saw here, some months ago DMP created DJGPP crosscompiler for Win32, that can also run Win64 and targetting real DOS. But I agree that DJGPP binaries shopuld work also on real DOS.