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>wine is an emulator.
WINE is a recursive acronym, Wine Is Not an Emulator. It's called this because it doesn't actually emulate an operating system on virtual hardware, instead it creates a reimplementation of the Win32 API so that the programs it runs can perform at native speeds (or close to it).
WINE is a recursive acronym, Wine Is Not an Emulator. It's called this because it doesn't actually emulate an operating system on virtual hardware, instead it creates a reimplementation of the Win32 API so that the programs it runs can perform at native speeds (or close to it).
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wine is still an emulator
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>wine is still an emulator
I guess in some contexts it could be considered an emulator of sorts, but in reality it's not really one. This is taken directly out of Wikipedia.
Another interesting bit:
Wine doesn't do that per se.
I guess in some contexts it could be considered an emulator of sorts, but in reality it's not really one. This is taken directly out of Wikipedia.
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Rather than acting as a full emulator, Wine implements a compatibility layer, providing alternative implementations of the DLLs that Windows programs call, and processes to substitute for the Windows NT kernel
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An emulator duplicates (provide an emulation of) the functions of one system with a different system, so that the second system behaves like (and appears to be) the first system.
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So what do you call it? A compatibility layer?
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its an API
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WINE is an API translator of sorts.
When a program wants to say, 'Open a New Window' instead of calling the real win32 windowopen function WINE translates that into a GNOME or KDE window instead.
That way the code does not need to be recompiled and in fact is run as binary win32 code binaries... so WINE is a Translator I think is the best way to describe WINE.
An emulator is just that... it has to set up memory spaces and run kernel spaces ON TOP of whatever OS is running. This is slow and costly and complex really.
WINE simply translates the SYSTEM CALLS into what Gnome or KDE or Qt or whatever graphics library Linux is using as it's GUI in X Windows. So, there is a small translation time cost but this is not really worth mentioning unless your so nerdy and worrried about absolute speed etc etc.. it is hardly measureable... so it is essential just as fast.
When a program wants to say, 'Open a New Window' instead of calling the real win32 windowopen function WINE translates that into a GNOME or KDE window instead.
That way the code does not need to be recompiled and in fact is run as binary win32 code binaries... so WINE is a Translator I think is the best way to describe WINE.
An emulator is just that... it has to set up memory spaces and run kernel spaces ON TOP of whatever OS is running. This is slow and costly and complex really.
WINE simply translates the SYSTEM CALLS into what Gnome or KDE or Qt or whatever graphics library Linux is using as it's GUI in X Windows. So, there is a small translation time cost but this is not really worth mentioning unless your so nerdy and worrried about absolute speed etc etc.. it is hardly measureable... so it is essential just as fast.
To C or not to C... that is the question.
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