On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Gert van den Berg <wine-users@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:40 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:34 AM, mr jingle <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I know it's totally unsupported and probably even a stupid question to ask considering that it's a topic that is nowhere to be discussed in the wiki, but I hope that someone with more clue could help me. >>> >>> I need to deploy on several machines (laptop) running vista 64 bit an old 16 bit accounting /groupware/calendar application, which is, of course, custom, proprietary and no longer supported by the developer (which was a local developer and has closed since a while, by the way) >>> >> >> 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. >> > > It does support 16-bit protected mode code, but not real-mode code. > (At least Im not sure about the real-mode code...) > > I assume Microsoft made a deliberate decision to drop 16-bit support > in 64-bit Windows, not necessary based on technical limitations... > AMD made the decision not to support this mode when they added 64 bit extensions to x86. John
