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minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-23 days agoIt IS an emulation. Wine only allows us to run windows applications not windows itself Wrong
minus-squarerenegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·3 days agobtw the joke is that Wine literally stands for “Wine Is Not an Emulator” https://www.winehq.org/
minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 days agoThat’s hilarious, I couldn’t have been more obviously wrong
minus-squareInfrapink@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 days agoThat’s not what emulation is. Emulators imitate hardware. WINE receives Windows system cells and returns the appropriate responses.
minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoMy fault, I genuinely thought wine was an imitation. Honestly I don’t use it much
minus-squareferret@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 days agoNo, it translates system calls. Very different.
It IS an emulation. Wine only allows us to run windows applications not windows itselfWrong
btw the joke is that Wine literally stands for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”
https://www.winehq.org/
That’s hilarious, I couldn’t have been more obviously wrong
That’s not what emulation is. Emulators imitate hardware. WINE receives Windows system cells and returns the appropriate responses.
My fault, I genuinely thought wine was an imitation. Honestly I don’t use it much
It’s okay, Comrade Sharkfucker
So it emulates system calls?
No, it translates system calls. Very different.