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Wine 11.0 is planned for release tomorrow, featuring NTSync for improved NT synchronization, fully supported new WoW64 mode, enhanced Wayland/Vulkan drivers, and many other improvements (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] schtobia@augsburg.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@ashleythorne true! But the Win32 ABI was the "holy grail" of Microsoft. You can run a Win95 application written under Borland C++ today! That they even _considering_ of breaking that, would be *unthinkable* a few years ago.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

There was some experiment they did in the mid 2000a that was also going to be completely incompatible. It went nowhere.