wine IS an emulator tho
>>107845921An emulator is called an emulator because it emulates physical hardware, such as PPSSPP and melonDS.Wine is a compatability layer that allows for windows apps to work on other systems, hence the name: Wine Is Not an Emulator (WINE)
>>107845921what is it emulating then?
>>107845959By other systems I am referring to other operating systems, mainly Linux.Wine does nothing about hardware and does not emulate it.
>>107845921and gnu is gun.
>>107845959Wine emulates x86 on x86. Just because there's no implementation doesn't mean it's not an emulator.
it is not an emulatorhttps://werat.dev/blog/how-wine-works-101/
>>107845988It literally doesn't and youre retarded, it translates windows syscalls to Linux syscalls
>>107845959OP btfo
>>107846004translation = emulation
>>107846004It doesn't even "translate" them, it's just another implementation other than microsoft's. It's like saying musl "translates" glibc
>>107845921True.https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.linux.misc/c/_g3F2H4ieDc/m/GKeIZCuOev0JOriginally named 'Wine' by co-creator Bob Amstadt. Wine was a shortened version of winemu (or WINdows EMUlator)>My orignal line of thinking was "winemu", but I didn't like that. Then I thought of shortening it to "wine". This led me to think of "whine" and "whinny". I liked "whine", but felt that it was too longThis was because one of the main features of Wine is a high-level emulation library>b) The second part of the finished product is an emulation library, which takes calls to Windows functions, and somehow translates these into calls to X11>A very minimal version of the emulation library has been merged with the loader. -Bob [Amstadt]After a discussion about Sun's Wabi, it was believed that Sun changed the internal name from WABI (Windows Application Binary Interface) to avoid any legal troubles from using the 'Windows' trademark.>I have talked Face to Face with a sun representitive who told me "Wabi does not stand for anything". He then went on to explain that they did want it to stand for Windows Application Binary Interface. but their lawyers told them they better not>"Formally announced in May, but previewed late last year, WABI acutally stands for (Microsoft) Windows Application Binary Interface ..." SunWorld, June 1993, p 22. There is also a similar statement in the April issue of SUnWorldThey decided they should follow suit and avoid essentially calling it 'Windows Emulator.'>For those of us in the user community, the threat of Microsquishy winning their appeal to have the word "Windows" trademarked is mostly irrelevant. But perhaps the Linux group should consider calling their version of Wabi "WAW" ("WAW ain't Windows(tm)"). This would preserve the grand old tradition of recursive acronyms, and would also be a good nose-thumbing at the sorry gits in Redmond.That is when "Wine Is Not an Emulator" was first suggested.
