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"Wine Is Not an Emulator"

• coldpie 6y ago
  The linked software contains a CPU emulator, since 64-bit Windows cannot execute programs in 16-bit mode. Regardless, I would argue Wine is an emulator. It emulates Windows's behavior, so it is perfectly fine to describe it as an emulator in some contexts. This pedantic nit-picking is really tiresome.
  • phh 6y ago
    It's not a nitpick in this context, since Wine on Android will only run ARM64 binaries (unless you have one of those few x86 Android devices)
  • _joel 6y ago
    Nitpicking? Literally look at https://www.winehq.org/ https://www.winehq.org/ front page "Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator")..."
    • anonunivgrad 6y ago
      And the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a democracy.
• LocalH 6y ago
  Wine is an API emulator