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Subject: Re: WINE

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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