On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Aleksey Bragin <alek...@reactos.org> wrote:
> Is there any real, practical interest in Wine on Windows? > I've been making some progress in this direction recently (though I think > my approach would be to have a ported, NT-version of wineserver.exe which > just uses native functions of the OS instead of emulating them over cygwin, > which emulates those features using its own code once again; discussable > anyway). > > WBR, > Aleksey Bragin. > > > DirectX 10 games on Windows XP :P Seriously though, being able to run programs that ran on Windows 9x but not NT based Windows would be a pretty good use for Wine. Granted, most of those programs are games, but meh. And then there's being able to run 16-bit Windows apps on 64-bit Windows! :P