Windows Libraries for OS/2

Windows Libraries for OS / 2 ( WLO, pronounced " Willow " ) was a collection of libraries that allow Windows applications could be ported to OS / 2.

These included the WLO runtime libraries that the Windows API represented (16 bit), but their functions have been translated into OS/2-Aufrufe (16 bit). This allowed programmers to their Windows programs instead of the usual Windows libraries with WLO to the left to get a OS/2-Programm.

WLO Microsoft was first released on February 4, 1991 ( Version 0.9 ) and used among others in the OS/2-Versionen of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. Not a - Calculator, Calendar, file, clipboard, clock, Editor, Paintbrush, teminal, Write, Windows Help and games Reversi and Solitaire: The program package Windows 3.0 applets for OS / 2 contained the typical Windows applications on OS / 2 unwelcome addition to the sparsely equipped early versions of OS / 2

The principle of WLO was later used by the developers of WINE, to allow direct execution of Windows programs under Unix-Betriebssystemen/X11.