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Re:Wine 3.0 Released by leeter on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:28PM (#16179827)
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.
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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

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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.

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Re:Wine 3.0 Released by monocasa on Thursday January 18, 2018 @06:08PM (#16182477)
Atoms have been 64bit since 2010.
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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.
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