[Wine] Re: Using wine for legacy support under windows?
mr jingle
wineforum-user at winehq.org
Tue Mar 17 16:25:58 CDT 2009
John Drescher wrote:
>
> The processor (AMD or Intel) does not support 16 bit protected mode
> applications while running in 64 bit mode so you need an emulator to
> run 16 bit under 64 bit.
>
> John
Is this true even while "emulated" running under wine? strange because such application show no problem of sort on wine / ubuntu 8.10 64 bit. I'm quite puzzled.
I suppose that the error message "The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS etc etc..." is just for 16 bit executables, right?
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