Re: Re: 64bit vs. 32bit

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On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:39:40 -0800, James Colannino wrote:

>I could be wrong, but I'll bet anything that Wine made use of the now
>defunct vm86 component of the x86 architecture.  [...]

Yes, I believe that's true, and that it's not available when you compile
for x86-64. However... why? If you really need to run DOS programs,
there's always DOSBOX, or even FreeDOS running in QEMU or similar, and
the graphics support will be better than whatever Wine would have
allowed.
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