On 07/15/2015 01:03 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Wed, 2015-07-15 at 05:49 +1000, John Smith wrote: >> But isn't that what an emulator does? >> > No. An emulator is a fairly large program that reads an executes binary > machine instructions used by the hardware that's being emulated. These > will be totally different from the machine instructions used by the > hardware that the emulator is running on. > > Wine isn't an emulator and doesn't need to be because both Linux and > Windows run in the same Intel hardware. > I suppose people disagree on what can be called an emulator. The term is often used for those slow CPU emulators though. See http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ . -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20150715/905a17d5/attachment.sig>
