[Wine] What is Wine?
Joris Huizer
jorishuizer at planet.nl
Sun Jan 22 09:58:59 CST 2006
Sumit Kumar wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am confused that what is wine.Is it an windows emulator
> or not.Because at different places on net their are different
> opinion regarding that.
>
> Again what wine stands for .Is it windows emulator or
> something else.
> Plz Help me.
>
>
> regards,
> Sumit kumar
>
wine uhm, emulates, the windows operating system environment
the statement 'wine is not an emulator' really indicates wine does not
emulate a PC - that is, as little as possible is emulated, "just" the
software, not the hardware -- this makes wine a more efficient solution
to run windows executables then running a PC emulator and a windows copy
in that; (also, the goal of wine is to have it run as much programs "out
of the box" as possible - without having to copy over windows dll files)
HTH,
Joris
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