Comment by mitxela
2 hours ago
despite the funny backronym, Wine actually IS a WINdows Emulator. Someone apparently told them that it's only called an emulator if it's emulating a CPU architecture, but that's not true.
2 hours ago
despite the funny backronym, Wine actually IS a WINdows Emulator. Someone apparently told them that it's only called an emulator if it's emulating a CPU architecture, but that's not true.
I thought it was an implementation of the Win32 API as a compatibility layer.
What is it emulating exactly?
Does Windows NT have a Windows 9x API emulator?
If you squint a bit (well, a lot really), Win32S on 3.1 and Windows 95’s Win32 implementation are Windows NT emulators running on top of 16 bit Windows.
Windows NT predates Windows 95 for two years.
And yes it did had emulators for Windows 16, and DOS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_DOS_machine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_on_Windows