http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6086
--- Comment #64 from Leslie Houk lhouk@lesliehouk.com 2009-01-20 10:33:37 --- (In reply to comment #63)
There are a few applications which were written for 95/98 that appear broken under Wine on SMP systems, indeed one might argue that because Windows 95/98 never supported SMP that this should be fixed in Wine rather than users having to use an external tool to set the affinity, such as schedtool or taskset as a workaround. It might not be that difficult to fix (if it is the problem).
I agree, and not just because I was the person who originally submitted this bug report for MOO2. It appears that the issue is now well defined, and hopefully not too difficult to remedy. And, as Jeff points out, there are other applications that are affected by the problem. While I certainly agree that the lion's share of developer efforts should go toward ensuring the functionality of newer apps under Wine, I also think that removing any issues that are well defined and that affect multiple apps is worthwhile, even if the apps in question are older ones. A user doesn't care that his favorite program is old; he just knows that his favorite program doesn't run under Wine.