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by _joel 2058 days ago
"Wine Is Not an Emulator"
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coldpie 2057 days ago
The linked software contains a CPU emulator, since 64-bit Windows cannot execute programs in 16-bit mode.

Regardless, I would argue Wine is an emulator. It emulates Windows's behavior, so it is perfectly fine to describe it as an emulator in some contexts. This pedantic nit-picking is really tiresome.

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phh 2057 days ago
It's not a nitpick in this context, since Wine on Android will only run ARM64 binaries (unless you have one of those few x86 Android devices)
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_joel 2057 days ago
Nitpicking? Literally look at https://www.winehq.org/ front page

"Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator")..."

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anonunivgrad 2057 days ago
And the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a democracy.
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LocalH 2057 days ago
Wine is an API emulator
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