I would not be surprised to see MS introduce a dockerized '16bit compatibility' mode for Enterprise versions of windows. The only reason 32bit windows is still around is to support 16bit apps for these companies.
Re:Wine 3.0 Released
by doesnt_know on Thursday January 18, 2018 @03:41PM
(#16181184)
They previously had their "Windows XP Mode"[1], run via the Windows Virtual PC[2]. Obviously not a container and it's dead now but yeah...
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-nz/download/details.aspx?id=800... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Virtual_PC
Re:Wine 3.0 Released
by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:58PM
(#16180140)
> The only reason 32bit windows is still around is to support 16bit apps for these companies.
Pretty sure it's also used in some Atom tablets.
Atoms have been 64bit since 2010.
Re:Wine 3.0 Released
by TheKitchenSinc on Thursday January 18, 2018 @06:26PM
(#16182598)
The HP Stream 7, a tablet released in late 2014 on the 64-bit Atom Z3735G, shipped with 32-bit Windows. This was presumably to avoid the memory overhead of 64-bit pointers, as it came with 1GB of RAM, so every bit counted.
That links to lmkl posts like https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/14/207
>> Afaik 64-bit windows doesn't support 16-bit binaries, so I just assumed Wine wouldn't do it either on x86-64. Not for any real technical reasons, though.
> Yes, there is still a significant number of users, and we still regularly get bug reports about specific 16-bit apps. It would be really nice if we could continue to support them on x86-64, particularly since Microsoft doesn't ;-)