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WX86 Rediscovered for Windows NT 4 (2020)

Author: Lammy

Score: 26

Comments: 2

Date: 2021-11-30 20:46:47

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vurpo wrote at 2021-12-01 12:34:03:

Did I miss something, or does the page not say what WX86 actually is?

lproven wrote at 2021-12-01 13:14:53:

You're not entirely wrong. I thought the same thing. The info is buried well down the page:

Wx86 is a new component under development for Windows NT which runs most x86 Win32 applications seamlessly and unmodified on RISC platforms.

It sounds to me like a MS version of something Digital successfully implemented and shipped under the name FX!32:

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...

Wikipedia has a précis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX!32