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Not exactly what you were asking, but someone "ported" .NET to Windows 95, without access to the source code:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTUMNtKQLl8

It's rather long, but iirc the gist was that the installer wouldn't work on 95, so he figured out what the installer did (files, registry) and created a new one. Then a few WinAPI functions were missing and he created stub dlls that would provide them and pass through everything else. And probably some other minor roadblocks.




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