Comment on Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs
woelkchen@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoFor 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”.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
To be fair this is also a translation layer and not an emulator.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
That’s assuming the writer knows what they’re talking about. Last line from the second paragraph:
And first line from the third paragraph.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Certainly more than you because Prism emulates an x86 CPU and WINE doesn’t, therefore the WINE comparison is still wrong.