Virtual DOS machine

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Virtual DOS machine

Quality:

Virtual DOS machine - technology that allows running 16-bit/32-bit DOS and 16-bit Windows programs on Intel 80386 or higher computers when there is already another operating system running and controlling the hardware. Article “Virtual DOS machine” in Simple English Wikipedia has 51.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 29 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.73 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Virtual DOS machine”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 233 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1355 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #450 in February 2024
  • Global: #19692 in February 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #15064 in June 2025
  • Global: #149847 in June 2008

There are 9 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Virtual DOS machine
60.6143
2Simple English (simple)
Virtual DOS machine
51.9386
3Russian (ru)
Виртуальная машина DOS
27.8977
4Japanese (ja)
仮想DOSマシン
15.3248
5German (de)
Virtual DOS Machine
14.6227
6Polish (pl)
NTVDM
13.3787
7Korean (ko)
가상 도스 머신
11.6293
8Czech (cs)
Virtual DOS machine
3.3689
9French (fr)
Machine DOS virtuelle
1.606
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Virtual DOS machine" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Virtual DOS machine
762 400
2German (de)
Virtual DOS Machine
72 398
3Japanese (ja)
仮想DOSマシン
55 410
4Polish (pl)
NTVDM
31 538
5Korean (ko)
가상 도스 머신
26 607
6Russian (ru)
Виртуальная машина DOS
24 593
7French (fr)
Machine DOS virtuelle
20 830
8Czech (cs)
Virtual DOS machine
7 883
9Simple English (simple)
Virtual DOS machine
3 552
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Virtual DOS machine" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Virtual DOS machine
3 251
2Simple English (simple)
Virtual DOS machine
541
3Japanese (ja)
仮想DOSマシン
104
4German (de)
Virtual DOS Machine
79
5Russian (ru)
Виртуальная машина DOS
56
6French (fr)
Machine DOS virtuelle
52
7Polish (pl)
NTVDM
38
8Korean (ko)
가상 도스 머신
32
9Czech (cs)
Virtual DOS machine
19
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Virtual DOS machine" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Virtual DOS machine
105
2German (de)
Virtual DOS Machine
45
3French (fr)
Machine DOS virtuelle
25
4Japanese (ja)
仮想DOSマシン
16
5Korean (ko)
가상 도스 머신
11
6Polish (pl)
NTVDM
11
7Simple English (simple)
Virtual DOS machine
10
8Czech (cs)
Virtual DOS machine
5
9Russian (ru)
Виртуальная машина DOS
5
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Virtual DOS machine" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Virtual DOS machine
1
2Czech (cs)
Virtual DOS machine
0
3German (de)
Virtual DOS Machine
0
4French (fr)
Machine DOS virtuelle
0
5Japanese (ja)
仮想DOSマシン
0
6Korean (ko)
가상 도스 머신
0
7Polish (pl)
NTVDM
0
8Russian (ru)
Виртуальная машина DOS
0
9Simple English (simple)
Virtual DOS machine
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Virtual DOS machine" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Virtual DOS machine
555
2Korean (ko)
가상 도스 머신
271
3Russian (ru)
Виртуальная машина DOS
191
4Japanese (ja)
仮想DOSマシン
182
5French (fr)
Machine DOS virtuelle
100
6German (de)
Virtual DOS Machine
29
7Czech (cs)
Virtual DOS machine
11
8Polish (pl)
NTVDM
9
9Simple English (simple)
Virtual DOS machine
7
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
csCzech
Virtual DOS machine
deGerman
Virtual DOS Machine
enEnglish
Virtual DOS machine
frFrench
Machine DOS virtuelle
jaJapanese
仮想DOSマシン
koKorean
가상 도스 머신
plPolish
NTVDM
ruRussian
Виртуальная машина DOS
simpleSimple English
Virtual DOS machine

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#15064
06.2025
Global:
#149847
06.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#450
02.2024
Global:
#19692
02.2024

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Virtual DOS machine from Wikipedia articles about MS-DOS, DOSBox, Windows on Windows, Windows 10 and MAME. Whereas reading the article about Virtual DOS machine people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Windows on Windows, DOSBox, Wine, Illegal opcode and COMMAND.COM.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

pl: NTVDM

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