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Wine Is Not an Emulator
by jbverschoor 4y ago
Wine Is Not an Emulator
- bombcar 4y agoI believe it now actually is again, or was, or something. It's a question when dealing with Win16 and now Win32 (Windows-on-Windows).
- caffed 4y agoHa Perfect! Yes, wine is an Windows binary executor with library translation. https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#Is_Wine_an_emulator.3F_There_seems_to_be_disagreement https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#Is_Wine_an_emulator.3F_There_see...
- delusional 4y agoSure, but it's also WINdows Emulator
- ink_13 4y agoNo, it's not, because it's not a emulator
- hot_gril 4y ago"In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest)." Sounds like Wine.
- wvenable 4y agoWine isn't emulating a computer. It's another implementation of the Win32 API. Just like Linux isn't a Unix emulator.
- hot_gril 4y agoThere is a Linux emulator for Unix (namely FreeBSD), and it's one of the first examples in the Wikipedia article on emulation. https://www.openbsd.org/60.html https://www.openbsd.org/60.html shows OpenBSD removing "Linux emulation." Linux was never designed to be the same as Unix, just similar. But it's more popular now, so Unix users found utility in pretending to run Linux.
- jbverschoor 4y agoWell you know.. I guess I'm OG when it comes to naming.
- gorkish 4y agoExcept sometimes on aarch64