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>Wine is not an emulator, for crying out loud

To those of us that used it back when Wine officially stood for Windows Emulator, people nowadays getting all upset on this point is an ever green source of amusement.




It never officially stood for that.The backronym was there even when the name WINE itself was very, very new [1].

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.linux.misc/_g3F2H4ie...


Interesting linked post, thanks, but the project FAQ was headlined "The Wine (Windows Emulator) FAQ" even in 1998. Wine clearly is an emulator of the Windows APIs, it's just not a CPU emulator which was a much more common thing back then.


> Wine clearly is an emulator of the Windows APIs

No, WINE is a third party implementation of Windows APIs, that doesn't make it an emulator. Otherwise, Oracle JDK would be an "OpenJDK emulator".




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