wine

[Justin]

"Wine Is Not an Emulator" was the original acronym, however that's no longer
official. The project has just been Wine (as opposed to WINE) for some time
now.

Wine is a native implementation of the Win32 API and is therefore not an
emulator any more than the python (or any) libraries are,

/offtopic off

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Cybe R. Wizard
<cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net>wrote:

> Carl Friis-Hansen <ubuntuuser at carl-fh.com>  said:
> > I thought wine was short for Windows Emulator?
>
> I believe that WINE stands for, "Wine Is No Emulator."
>
> Cybe R. Wizard
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