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minus-squarerenegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 months agoAre you telling me wine is not emulation?
minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-22 months agoIt IS an emulation. Wine only allows us to run windows applications not windows itself Wrong
minus-squarerenegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 months agobtw the joke is that Wine literally stands for “Wine Is Not an Emulator” https://www.winehq.org/
minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoThat’s hilarious, I couldn’t have been more obviously wrong
minus-squareInfrapink@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 months agoThat’s not what emulation is. Emulators imitate hardware. WINE receives Windows system cells and returns the appropriate responses.
minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoMy fault, I genuinely thought wine was an imitation. Honestly I don’t use it much
minus-squareferret@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoNo, it translates system calls. Very different.
Are you telling me wine is not emulation?
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.