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woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

For example, in the early days of World of Warcraft, it actually ran better on WINE on Linux than natively on Windows.

WINE literally stands for “WINE Is Not an Emulator”.

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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
To be fair this is also a translation layer and not an emulator.

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- woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  To be fair this is also a translation layer and not an emulator.
  
  Prism is an x86 emulator for ARM. If you think that Prism is “a translation layer and not an emulator”, I refer you to the very first word of the second to last paragraph of the submitted article.
  
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  - fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s assuming the writer knows what they’re talking about. Last line from the second paragraph:
    
    Windows 11 has similar translation capabilities, and with the Windows 11 24H2 update, that app translation technology is getting a name: Prism.
    
    And first line from the third paragraph.
    
    Microsoft says that Prism isn’t just a new name for the same old translation technology.
    
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    woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    That’s assuming the writer knows what they’re talking about.
    
    Certainly more than you because Prism emulates an x86 CPU and WINE doesn’t, therefore the WINE comparison is still wrong.
    
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