wine users - Nov 2001 - WHAT IS WINE ???????????

have no Idea emulator for what ?

Its ME

John Wayne wrote:
> have no Idea emulator for what ?
AFAIR it's not emulator :-)

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John Wayne wrote:
> 
> have no Idea emulator for what ?
> 
> Its ME
LOL,
here's a hint, our newsgroup (that you have already found) is in 
"comp.emulators.ms-windows".  That obvious for you?  :)

Seriously, who are you? :)

In comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine, John Wayne
<babylon2002@hotmail>
 wrote
on Sun, 04 Nov 2001 01:48:42 +1100
<qt08ut86785j82mj2o4md1nm0n4d58jnf9@4ax.com>:
>
>have no Idea emulator for what ?
>
>Its ME
Wine is a package (I'm not sure if one can call it a program or not,
although the executable 'wine' is run to launch things)
that allows for a Windows program to run on a Linux machine, by
translating many Win32 calls (and many other calls, such as Commdlg)
to X calls.  It is emulating Win32.

However, since no one's put in support (AFAIK) for emulating the actual
x86 instructions yet, Wine is not an emulator; if one were to write
a Windows program that did very little Windows painting, being
mostly calculations, chances are the Linux version running under Wine
would run at the same speed as on native Windows.  (There are a lot
of issues here, as the underlying kernel is different and the
scheduler for Linux differs from the scheduler in Windows;
it also depends on which variant of Windows one is referring to,
as Win9x != Win2k.)

This is admittedly clear as mud, but it does work. :-)

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