Support for binaries that were abandoned by M$, and maintenance hell?

[Francois Gouget]

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Marcus Meissner wrote:
[...]
> 16bit support is deeply integrated into the WINE core and not easy to extract.

Furthermore a lot of '32bit applications' actually use 16bit code either 
directly or indirectly (although that may be getting less common these 
days). What this means is that if you remove 16bit support it's quite 
likely a lot of 32bit applications will stop working.

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