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Wine Is Not an Emulator.
Yea the title of the post is wrong, in the ss they never mentioned emulation.
I mean, it is true, but, who said otherwise?
They were talking about translating layer, which would be correct, wouldn’t it.
OP in the title of the post
😮😆didn’t see that
This. It's literally what it stands for.
W - Wine
I - Is
N - Not
E - an Emulator
It's also recursive.
Wine Is Not an Emulator
Is
Not an
Emulator
Wine Is Not an Emulator Is Not an Emulator Is Not an Emulator
is not an emulator
Yes, that is what they were saying.
Yea, that's why they elaborated.
But there was nothing to elaborate on, they just restated it.
Wine is not an emulator
I have questions on the emulator status of Wine
Wine is not a hardware emulator.
However, its very purpose is to emulate the Windows runtime environment. Translating API calls is only part of that. Also, the project abandoned that silly backronym years ago.
So kindly leave people alone when they refer to it emulating, or as an emulator, or something that emulates. They're not wrong.
Isn't it mostly a reimplementation of the windows API? Where do we draw the distinction?
I am pretty sure wine is taking Windows API And translating it into POSIX APIS
The same place you would draw it between a square and a quadrilateral.