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wat10000today at 2:52 AM2 repliesview on HN

It's a bit different. WOW64 is a compatibility layer that intercepts calls into system libraries from 32-bit apps and translates them into calls to 64-bit libraries. macOS shipped both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of all system libraries, no translation involved.


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mr-rontoday at 3:34 AM

Seems like also 16bit apps????

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TMWNNtoday at 6:12 AM

So Microsoft continues to support something that is presumably harder to maintain than Apple just continuing to ship existing 32-bit libraries?

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