Subj : Re: ArcaOS DOS window fi
To : Sean Dennis
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Wed Jun 03 2020 08:26 pm
-=> On 06-02-20 16:16, Sean Dennis wrote to Don Lowery <=-
SD> WINE is not the end-all-be-all to run Windows programs. WINE is a
SD> kludge. Now there is something similar to WINE for OS/2 called Odin
Did Odin ever mature? I thought it stalled.
SD> though I have never used it. There's something else also, I think
SD> called "win32s", but I have never explored either option and perhaps
SD> others in here would be better suited to help you with this.
Win32s is a sumset of Win32, and it initially appeared in the Windows 3.x days.
It provided a limited subset of Win32 functionality for 16 bit apps. Win32s
isn't an OS/2 thing, it's a Microsoft thing.
SD> I admit that if it wasn't for the BBS, I'd not be dealing with OS/2
SD> anymore. There's still too many limitations for me to use ArcaOS as my
SD> personal OS even though I still love OS/2 in general.
ArcaOS is what I'd like to really resurrect my old BBS under, though it looks
like it's likely to come back under DOS/Qemu under Linux or Win64 first.
