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I would not be surprised to see MS introduce a dockerized '16bit compatibility' mode for Enterprise versions of windows. The only reason 32bit windows is still
by leeter 9y ago
I would not be surprised to see MS introduce a dockerized '16bit compatibility' mode for Enterprise versions of windows. The only reason 32bit windows is still around is to support 16bit apps for these companies.
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y ago> The only reason 32bit windows is still around is to support 16bit apps for these companies. Pretty sure it's also used in some Atom tablets.
- monocasa 9y agoAtoms have been 64bit since 2010.
- TheKitchenSinc 9y agoThe HP Stream 7, a tablet released in late 2014 on the 64-bit Atom Z3735G, shipped with 32-bit Windows. This was presumably to avoid the memory overhead of 64-bit pointers, as it came with 1GB of RAM, so every bit counted.
- doesnt_know 9y agoThey previously had their "Windows XP Mode"[1], run via the Windows Virtual PC[2]. Obviously not a container and it's dead now but yeah... [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-nz/download/details.aspx?id=8002 https://www.microsoft.com/en-nz/download/details.aspx?id=800... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Virtual_PC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Virtual_PC