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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (877)1/18/1999 5:32:00 PM
From: Mitch Blevins  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 2617
 
Re: Wine.

Technically, Wine is _not_ an emulator. The article mistakenly says that Wine stands for 'Windows Emulator', but it really stands for 'Wine Is Not an Emulator'. Wine is an alternave implementation of the Windows dlls. An emulator would provide an environment to let the MS dlls run in, rather than replace the actual libraries.

Having said that, my experience is that Wine runs just as slow as an emulator, despite the acronym.

-Mitch


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