A look at Dart

Posted Aug 18, 2020 8:40 UTC (Tue) by james (subscriber, #1325)
In reply to: A look at Dart by Wol
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The rate things are going, we might be able to run 16-bit Windows programs on Wine on Linux inside WSL on 64-bit Windows. And yes, I can imagine that some people might find that useful.

(We can already run 16-bit Windows programs on Wine on x86-64 Linux. It was only Microsoft that took out all 16-bit support on x86-64: the hardware still supports 16-bit protected mode in long mode, just not v86.)

And, of course, there are virtual machines.

A look at Dart

Posted Aug 18, 2020 12:53 UTC (Tue) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106) [Link]

You joke, but I've actually *done* that. With QEMU user mode emulation thrown into the mix to support 32-bit Linux binaries under WSL on 64-bit Windows. Binfmt support was a bit of a pain since WSL skips the usual startup sequence, but it worked (more or less) once I configured it manually.

A better solution, however, is OTVDM[1], which provides a WineVDM-based alternative to the Virtual DOS Machine (VDM) subsystem which was not implemented natively for 64-bit Windows. (This is still a work in progress; I've had better luck with the development version than the latest formal release.)

[1] http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/otvdm.html