[ros-kernel] Re: Sharing code with wine + 16 bit support

[KJK::Hyperion <no...@li...>]

At 22.45 24/10/2001 +0200, you wrote:
> > Does wine support 16bit apps?  We don't, and I don't see any need to
> > either.  It has been many many years since we left the 16bit world
> > behind.  We finally even got rid of the ISA bus.  I think we can drop
> > 16bit
> > windows/dos as well.
>Anyway, 16-bit in NT is emulated AFAIK with the WOW (Windows On Windows).

Right. Emulation of 16 bit code should be fairly trivial, anyway, since 
it's mostly a feature of the Intel architecture

>That can be done separately, no? And what about win32 console apps? Since 
>they depends on the console, could they be affected by the absence of this 
>support?

Only in Windows 95, where consoles are all DOS virtual machines. NT 
consoles are a service provided by the Win32 (AKA Client-server runtime) 
subsystem, csrss.exe (it does expose NTVDM/WOW specific extensions through 
kernel32.dll, though)

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