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For work, not due to other requirements, however for personal documents I fully agree with your first point, MS Office 2.0 is good enough to type in some snail letters, school reports or CVs.

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Also there is security. I think, I just guess, these old 16bit file formats are all exploitable to some extent

Yes, however if you are only using them privately as a modern typewriter for stuff that is anyway going to be sent on paper, there is less of a concern.

Now sharing files with others is another matter, and I fully agree.

Doubt you'd be storing important ssh keys on the same VM

You would be surprised on how some offshoring projects go, which anyway has zero to do with what I was talking about.

It's not a VM, as far as I understand. Possibly OTVDM.

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