--- Todd Vierling tv@pobox.com wrote:
You should be aware that NT on Alpha was *NOT* a LP64 operating system (whereas Windows on IA64 is indeed LP64), and I'm presuming that the "alpha-pe" is targeting the classical NT/Alpha configuration. The ARC BIOS that was used to load NT created a memory map that simulated a 32-bit memory space, thus essentially making an Alpha behave much like an x86 -- well, sort of.
A Wine compiled as Win64 will likely not be able to run Alpha NT binaries. However, it might work reasonably well to compile apps with Winelib.
I dont really care so much about being compatible with Alpha NT stuff. I know Marcus broke the NT PPC compatiblity stuff for his Winelib port so I think its a non-issue for anyone here.
I just wonder how M$ did this for Win2K RC1. I have a copy of this and it supported older Alpha NT apps even though it was supposed to be LP64. I dont know that much about the lower level stuff so maybe they figured out a way to do both. They did have Fx32 built in also for X86 apps so maybe it was extended to support LP32 alpha apps in 64 bit mode.
Thanks Steven
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