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Hats off to the Wine team for all the amazing work! Myself and I'm sure many others wouldn't be able to switch to Linux without you. Thank you!

> 16-bit applications are supported in the new WoW64 mode.

I’d like to thank them for this, specifically! I had some old applications that weren’t working in the old WoW mode.

The funny thing (or actually sad) is Windows cannot run win16 anymore.

It was since Win XP 64bit, ~20 years ago.

You could run win16 apps on Windows 10 32bits though (supported until May 2020) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compatibility/ntvd...

> win16 apps on Windows 10 32bits though

Which was only installed for special purposes. The majority had Win10 64

This is amazing. I may be asking too much here, but does this mean you can run Win16 apps on ARM, eg macOS?

Unlikely.

64-bit Windows cannot natively run 16-bit apps because...reasons? 32-bit Windows still can, however

Except that Windows 11 is now 64-bit only