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> : Wine Is Not an Emulator. But it does let you run Windows binaries
> : under <insert x86 Unix here>.
>
> I don't understand this stupid "X is not Y" acronym fashion.
> "Wine Is Not an Emulator, but you can emulate a windows environment with
> it." Aw, come on!
its not an emulator, its more like a windows wrapper
besides, naming your *nix software with some daft acronym is a tradition,
bound to stop if Linux ever attaints general acceptance on the desktop -
normal people like to get an idea of purpose from an apps name
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