On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:40 AM, David Laight david@l8s.co.uk wrote:
Does wine support running of 16bit windows apps? If so does it rely on the underlying OS having support for 'virtual 8086 emulation'?
I'm thinking of removing the VM86 support from NetBSD, and wine is about the only likley user.
David
-- David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk
16 bit Windows applications are written and compiled to either use real mode or 16 bit protected mode. Those that use real mode (mostly MS-DOS and Windows 1 and 2 applications) need virtual 8086 mode. Those that use protected mode (mostly Windows >= 3.0 applications) don't need virtual 8086 mode.
You'd break DOSBOX a lot more than Wine. But why do you want to remove this from NetBSD? I thought compatibility with other operating systems was one of its major features?
Damjan