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by hectorm 1684 days ago
The ISO is downloaded from WinWorld, which is a website dedicated to archiving old software, it's certainly community maintained but at least gets some scrutiny. I also searched the checksum and it matches with other sources, but as there is no longer an official Microsoft source you can never be entirely sure.

I've done my best to confirm the legitimacy but if anyone has an original CD it would be awesome if they could confirm it.

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My suggestion is to not embed third party urls for infringing software.. that makes you a target. Inside leave that variable empty and make suggestions on where one could find the media whether it’s the original or from questionable third party websites.

This is how popular emulators survived the 90s, they emulate the bios but force you to find the firmware yourself. Even if it means downloading from an unknown source without a supply chain and running unknown code on your computer. The emulator and author are in the clear