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WINE and the importance of application compatibilityMay 17, 2009, 06:05 (4 Talkback[s])(Other stories by Con Zymaris) [ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for this link. ] "This new group of users, providing a growing target audience for software developers to aim their wares at, precipitated the enormous hegemony that Microsoft enjoys today on the desktop. The transition from DOS to Windows was not exactly smooth, as anyone who can attest to years of fiddling with HIMEM.SYS settings to get DOS games working under Windows will tell you. However, it wasn't a burdensome discontinuity either; DOS line-of-business applications (built in Clipper, dBase, Turbo Pascal etc.) would, for the most part, safely run under Windows via emulation. Related Stories:
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