lostwages/templates/en myths.template
Jeremy Newman
jnewman at wine.codeweavers.com
Mon Feb 6 10:40:54 CST 2006
ChangeSet ID: 22803
CVSROOT: /opt/cvs-commit
Module name: lostwages
Changes by: jnewman at winehq.org 2006/02/06 10:40:54
Modified files:
templates/en : myths.template
Log message:
Juan Lang <juan_lang at yahoo.com>
Win32 has been the default for Wine for years, so say so
Patch: http://cvs.winehq.org/patch.py?id=22803
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diff -u -p lostwages/templates/en/myths.template:1.12 lostwages/templates/en/myths.template:1.13
--- lostwages/templates/en/myths.template:1.12 6 Feb 2006 16:40:54 -0000
+++ lostwages/templates/en/myths.template 6 Feb 2006 16:40:54 -0000
@@ -163,24 +163,21 @@ although Windows NT (and thus the Win32
supported Windows 3.1 applications. Anyway, almost no-one used Windows
NT in that time anyway.
<p>
-But these days are long gone. The Windows 3.1 support may still be more
-complete than that of the Win32 API but most of the development nowadays
-happens for the Win32 API. Furthermore I should point out two more
-things. First, it seems people complaining about Wine supporting only
-Windows 3.1 usually do not realize that Wine also includes some support
-for the DOS API. That's because a non negligible percentage of Windows
-3.1 and even Windows 9x applications still make calls to the DOS
-interrupts! Second, Winelib only supports the Win32 API. The Win16 header
-files (necessary for compiling a Win16 application) have been moved out
-of the way to simplify development. So in some way the Win32 API is
-better supported than the Win16 one.
-<p>
-So currently Wine does not support the Win64 API at all. But the Wine
-team does take Win64 into account when making architectural decisions.
-In fact we'll probably see history repeating itself: the Win64 API has
-not been released in a commercial product yet, so no-one is using it
-anyway. So I can predict that when it becomes widespread we'll see Wine
-developers starting to work on supporting it.
+But these days are long gone. Since August 2005, Wine advertises its version
+as Windows 2000, and for several years before this it was Windows 98, so really
+Win32 is the primary thing Wine supports. Support for Windows 3.1 applications
+is still around, of course, as is some support for DOS applications.
+<p>
+Win64 support would allow Wine to run native Windows 64-bit executables, and
+as of February 2006, Wine does not yet have this support. That's okay, since
+there are very few commercially available Win64 applications. One exception,
+Unreal Tournament 2004, is available in a native Linux 64-bit version, so
+nobody (except maybe a Wine hacker) should want to run the Windows version
+anyway.
+<p>
+This doesn't mean that Wine will not work on 64-bit systems. It does. See
+<a href="http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit">this entry</a> in the
+<a href="http://wiki.winehq.org/">Wine Wiki</a> for more info.
<a name="only_linux"></a>
<h2>Myth 9: "Wine is for Linux only"</h2>
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