Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 29th Oct 2001 17:25 UTC
WINE is definetely not an emulator. Neither a runtime. Wine is an implementation of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs on top of X and Unix featuring a Windows compatibility layer. Wine provides both a development toolkit (Winelib) for porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing unmodified Windows 3.1/95/NT binaries to run under Intel Unixes (some screenshots here). Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% open source Microsoft-free code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are available. WINE's project leader and CodeWeavers' software engineer (a company which sells a modified WINE version), Alexandre Julliard, answers a series of questions to OSNews regarding the project and its future.
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Gnu_bob. THIS IS NOT SLASHDOT. Continue writing all this crap and spam our forums as you do the last 2 weeks and you will have your IP banned from this web site completely by the end of the day. You won't be able to even read the news, let alone reply to forums.