Comment by mitxela
3 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.
3 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?
DOS interrupts, for starters.
its closer to a translator than an emulator
Does Windows NT have a Windows 9x API emulator?
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
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.