New Executable

The New Executable (abbreviated NE or NewEXE) is a 16-bit .exe file format, a successor to the DOS MZ executable format. It was used in a special version of MS-DOS, Windows 1.0, Windows 2.x, and Windows 3.x. While it was "new" at the time of invention, it is now rare and obsolete, though it is used in a small number of programs.