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It never officially stood for that.The backronym was there even when the name WINE itself was very, very new [1]. [1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.l
by calcifer 8y ago
It never officially stood for that.The backronym was there even when the name WINE itself was very, very new [1].
[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.linux.misc/_g3F2H4ieDc/1tN3XZODaYwJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.linux.misc/_g3F2H4ie...
- simonh 8y agoInteresting linked post, thanks, but the project FAQ was headlined "The Wine (Windows Emulator) FAQ" even in 1998. Wine clearly is an emulator of the Windows APIs, it's just not a CPU emulator which was a much more common thing back then.
- calcifer 8y ago> Wine clearly is an emulator of the Windows APIs No, WINE is a third party implementation of Windows APIs, that doesn't make it an emulator. Otherwise, Oracle JDK would be an "OpenJDK emulator".