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zozbot234 on April 20, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: OsFree project: OS/2 Replacement

It would be interesting to see a Wine-like compatibility layer for OS/2 applications. It could even be included in Wine itself, seeing as there are quite a few analogies between Win16/Win32 and OS/2.

sedatk on April 20, 2020 [–]

Windows had that subsystem (osxss.exe) but for OS/2 1.x only.

jacobush on April 21, 2020 | | [–]

OS/2 Warp could run Windows apps but it had actually a Windows 3.1 inside of it. A bit like XP mode on Windows 7.

JdeBP on April 21, 2020 | | [–]

... and not even all of that.

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