Windows Emulators
In today's computing world, Windows emulation is generally more interesting than is DOS emulation. Although DOS applications continue to hang on in certain categories, most new mainstream programs are written for Windows. Therefore, Windows emulation is an important consideration for many people running multi-OS configurations.
Two broad classes of Windows programs are important in any discussion of Windows emulation:
Win16— 16-bit Windows programs use the so-called Win16 API, which was popularized by Windows 3.1 and its predecessors. This type of program uses 16-bit memory addresses, which means that programs must break large data structures into 64KB (216 byte) chunks—an annoying proposition from a programmer's point of ...
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