WoW64 - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoW64The WoW64 subsystem comprises a lightweight compatibility layer that has similar interfaces on all 64-bit versions of Windows. It aims to create a 32-bit environment that provides the interfaces required to run unmodified 32-bit Windows applications on a 64-bit system. WOW64 is implemented using several DLLs, some of which include: 1. Wow64.dll, the core interface to the Windows NT kernel that translates(thunks) between 32-bit …