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Old 06-08-2020, 04:25
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My goal is not for sice working in Windows, but rather in DOS.
Because I want to use sice as a best choice to teach my students to
debug old DOS viruses.
In that case, you can use an ms-dos virtual machine. They would have the full operating system experience without the hassles and limitations of dosbox or bochs.

However, like Archer, I question the practicality of this teaching approach. A "back in my day, we did it this way" approach to teaching, though it certainly will give students an appreciation for technological advances, may not carry over very well to modern approaches. It would be a similar concept to teaching a Spanish major Latin prior to teaching him Spanish because its roots are founded in Latin. It doesn't seem very practical. This is merely my opinion though.

It is also important to note that depending on your country of origin's adherence to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act(DMCA), having students use SoftIce, a program classified as commercial abandonware, is a legal gray area. Legally speaking, it is still considered piracy by definition.
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