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Sure, but it's also WINdows Emulator

• ink_13 4y ago
  No, 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 ago
      Wine isn't emulating a computer. It's another implementation of the Win32 API. Just like Linux isn't a Unix emulator.
      • hot_gril 4y ago
        There 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 ago
  Well you know.. I guess I'm OG when it comes to naming.