Comment by extropy
3 years ago
By that logic any modern windows is an emulator of win32, since that is not a kernel API but a user space library "emulating" it.
Exactly the same way as wine. Wine does not translate the calls, it for most part actually implements the underlying logic.
Win32 is just a bunch of shared libraries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_library_file...
You're exactly right, and the Wine project agrees.
> That said, Wine can be thought of as a Windows emulator in much the same way that Windows Vista can be thought of as a Windows XP emulator: both allow you to run the same applications by translating system calls in much the same way. Setting Wine to mimic Windows XP is not much different from setting Vista to launch an application in XP compatibility mode.
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> "Wine is not just an emulator" is more accurate. Thinking of Wine as just an emulator is really forgetting about the other things it is. Wine's "emulator" is really just a binary loader that allows Windows applications to interface with the Wine API replacement.