[cw-discuss] Dropped Support

[Tim Fairchild]

On Thursday 01 March 2007 03:04, Manaen Schlabach wrote:
> This might be a silly question but I feel compelled to ask it.
> Microsoft does not support products forever and I was wondering if at
> some point WINE/Codeweavers might have to start making decisions about
> what won't run (or should be dropped) to get the latest and greatest
> new software running.  As an example I personally really wouldn't
> expect anything from the old win 3.11 days to run under wine.

MS keeps using the same old stuff anyway tho. win 3.1 apps still run on XP 
(and wine) probably because a lot of the calls are the same. Indeed some of 
the apps are the same. Have you ever compared apps like sound recorder and 
calculator... I think the XP and win 3.1 versions use a lot (most) of the 
same code :)

eg XP vs 3.1:
http://www.bcs4me.com/Untitled-1.gif
http://www.bcs4me.com/Untitled-2.gif

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