Author: Stefan Fredriksson
Date: 00:02:30 03/16/01
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On March 14, 2001 at 17:40:22, James Swafford wrote: >On March 14, 2001 at 16:31:10, Pete Galati wrote: > >> >>Ok, my appolgies. But as I understand it, it's not the Linux OS itself right? >>It's more or less a Windows substute that runs on Linux. >> >>Pete > > >Close enough. It's an emulator... Well, that depends who you ask. WINE stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator :) But I agree with you, its close to what could be described as an emulator and that is probably the easiest way to explain to someone what it is. /Stefan >it allows you to run Windows executables >on Linux. It doesn't support the entire Windows API, so some programs >may not run. The ones that do will suffer a performance penalty for the >extra layer of processing.
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