[ros-kernel] WOW and WOWEXEC

[Steven E. <Ste...@kn...>]

Hola Folks,
I know this is no where near top on the list of things to add to ROS, but I
think I found a solution. A few weeks ago there was a thread discussing
using dosemu for the 16bit WOW emulation, but that idea was droped because
of the work need to port dosemu. I suggest we look a TWIN.
http://www.willows.com/

It has a subset of dosemu for running 16 bit applications (dos/win16) on a
large varity of systems. Check out the intp32 and the msdos lib. I think
this could be what we will need. As far as making it 100% compatibly with
the NT WOW subsystem, I dont think this should be a priority for the first
release of ReactOS if ever. 

This should be looked at soon though, because if some company is still
running dos/win16 apps then mabey this type of support would encorage moving
off of 9x/NT and on to ReactOS.

Steven