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It look Wine almost 15 years to get to the 1.0 release.

• arethuza 16y ago
  Although to be fair to Wine they have had to build the entire stack - as far as I can see this only runs on Windows. Presumably emulating the Windows APIs on Windows is a lot easier than emulating them on a completely different underlying platform. Still - it's pretty cool.
  • Hoff 16y ago
    It's easier, and a pass-through model is not entirely new. DEC's fx!32 emulator was running Windows x86 code on Windows Alpha way back in 1996. And yes, fx!32 passed calls through to native Windows code, too.
    • arethuza 16y ago
      I remember having a PC emulator on a OSF/1 Alpha about 94 or so (SoftWindows?) - was perfectly usable.