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		BirAdam 52 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thunk: Build Rust program to support Windows XP, V... I thought win16 only supported NE and MZ, does it support PE?

seritools 52 days ago [–]

this comment thread hasn't been talking about win16.

but you're right, win16 can only load some 32-bit PE files through something like Win32s

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