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Wine HQ: Interview with Andreas Mohr

[ Thanks to Brian Vincent for this
link. ]

BV: Do you remember the first patch you
submitted?

Andi: Of course I could look at
documentation/ChangeLog.OLD, since I’m not entirely sure right now,
but from numerous previous glances at that file, I’m pretty sure
that it was a patch fixing some NE file (Win16 programs) data
segment size calculation, way back at the end of 1996 or so.

BV: Did Wine even support PE executables back
then? Did you have any hand in getting the loader to work with
them?

Andi: Yes, as far as I remember there was basic Win32
executable loading support at that time. But the real Win32 support
started later. I did improve PE support on several occasions, but I
don’t remember any details (see ChangeLog for info)…”

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