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minus-squarerenegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·7 hours agoAre you telling me wine is not emulation?
minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-25 hours agoIt IS an emulation. Wine only allows us to run windows applications not windows itself Wrong
minus-squarerenegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-25 hours agobtw the joke is that Wine literally stands for “Wine Is Not an Emulator” https://www.winehq.org/
minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-24 hours agoThat’s hilarious, I couldn’t have been more obviously wrong
minus-squareInfrapink@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 hours agoThat’s not what emulation is. Emulators imitate hardware. WINE receives Windows system cells and returns the appropriate responses.
minus-squareferret@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoNo, it translates system calls. Very different.
minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoMy fault, I genuinely thought wine was an imitation. Honestly I don’t use it much
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.
So it emulates system calls?
No, it translates system calls. Very different.
My fault, I genuinely thought wine was an imitation. Honestly I don’t use it much