This is a revival of #4, which was spammed down.
Initially I tried to avoid raising this issue once again, but a thought came to me today accidentally and I felt it deserved at least a public mention. So here it is: support for Win32s would also allow, up to some extent, porting for OS/2 - the first 32-bit OS of Microsoft, developed with their close participation and being a direct predecessor of the NT line (except for the kernel).
https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_Win32s_in_Win-OS/2
The full support for OS/2 target, albeit kinda appealing, is noticeably more difficult to implement because of very similar, but still quite different APIs and executable formats (NE/LE/LX instead of PE). In addition, I also suspect that it would be simply beyond the scope of this project.
some other related and interesting links
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42574055
https://www.itweek.ru/themes/detail.php?ID=44340 (in Russian)
https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=Win-OS/2
https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=Win32s
https://www.edm2.com/index.php/Win32s
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=92484
https://landley.net/history/mirror/os2/history/index.html
http://www.os2voice.org/vnl/past_issues/vnl1001h/vnewsf4.htm
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/os2-history/
This is a revival of #4, which was spammed down.
Initially I tried to avoid raising this issue once again, but a thought came to me today accidentally and I felt it deserved at least a public mention. So here it is: support for Win32s would also allow, up to some extent, porting for OS/2 - the first 32-bit OS of Microsoft, developed with their close participation and being a direct predecessor of the NT line (except for the kernel).
https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_Win32s_in_Win-OS/2
The full support for OS/2 target, albeit kinda appealing, is noticeably more difficult to implement because of very similar, but still quite different APIs and executable formats (NE/LE/LX instead of PE). In addition, I also suspect that it would be simply beyond the scope of this project.
some other related and interesting links
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42574055
https://www.itweek.ru/themes/detail.php?ID=44340 (in Russian)
https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=Win-OS/2
https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=Win32s
https://www.edm2.com/index.php/Win32s
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=92484
https://landley.net/history/mirror/os2/history/index.html
http://www.os2voice.org/vnl/past_issues/vnl1001h/vnewsf4.htm
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/os2-history/