Not an Emulator

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If WINE Is Not an Emulator, how does it work then?

[WingedPanther]

wine is an API call translator. An emulator as to replicate AND IMPLEMENT everything that windows offers. wine just translates Windows API calls into corresponding X API calls.

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So it is an interpreter of sorts.

[WingedPanther]

Basically, yes.

[Tor]

This is from Wikipedia:

Wine implements the Windows API entirely in user-space, rather than as a kernel module at the time of writing. Services normally provided by the kernel in Windows are provided by a daemon known as wineserver. Wineserver implements basic Windows functionality, as well as providing extra functions such as X Window integration and translation of signals into native Windows exceptions.

[tekmiester]

Its faster and works better than an emulator

[imported_Affix]

Its faster and works better than an emulator

I beg to differ Cedega is an emulator and provides support for alot more applications than wine does