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• ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What does the WINE in WINE Is Not an Emulator stand for

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  • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s recursive for Wine Is Not An Emulator. The program is a translation layer - including translating Windows specific function calls into something Linux can understand (IE: DirectX to Vulcan).

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      OK, interesting. So my question is, what does THAT Wine stand for?

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      • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        recursive

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  • dellish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It Not an Emulator all the way down.

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