1.3. Is Wine an emulator? There seems to be disagreement.There is a
lot of confusion about this, particularly caused by people getting
Wine's name wrong and calling it WINdows Emulator.When users think of
an emulator, they tend to think of things like game console emulators
or virtualization software. However, Wine is a compatibility layer -
it runs Windows applications in much the same way Windows does. There
is no inherent loss of speed due to "emulation" when using Wine, nor
is there a need to open Wine before running your application.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.There are a few things that make Wine more than
just an emulator.Sections of Wine can be used on Windows. Some virtual
machines use Wine's OpenGL-based implementation of Direct3D on Windows
rather than truly emulate 3D hardware.Winelib can be used for porting
Windows application source code to other operating systems that Wine
supports to run on any processor - even processors that Windows itself
does not support."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.
Официальный FAQ:
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-c9e6502ad636315e905d07f7e44594757a6738e3
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23 октября 2011 г. 10:39 пользователь EGD
On 23 октября 2011 02:20:21 Andrey Gankov wrote:
Перевожу статью http://en.opensuse.org/Concepts И обнаружил очень интересную вещь. В последнем абзатце wine расшифровывается как (*Win*dows *E*mulator), но я всегда думал что wine расшифровывается как /*W*ine *I*s *N*ot an *E*mulator /то есть имеет обратный смысл. Сначала подумал что статья для новичков и это типа упрощение что бы не запаривать им мозги, но вот обнаружил в английской википедиа что это старое название используемое до 1997. Получается в нашей вики просто ошибка?
а в википедии написано, что это не эмулятор... на сайте вайна не нашел