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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by ink_13 on Monday August 15, 2022 @03:01PM (#32473798)
No, it's not, because it's not a emulator
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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by hot_gril on Monday August 15, 2022 @05:03PM (#32475345)
"In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest)."

Sounds like Wine.

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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by wvenable on Monday August 15, 2022 @05:35PM (#32475709)
Wine isn't emulating a computer. It's another implementation of the Win32 API.

Just like Linux isn't a Unix emulator.

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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by hot_gril on Monday August 15, 2022 @05:51PM (#32475904)
There is a Linux emulator for Unix (namely FreeBSD), and it's one of the first examples in the Wikipedia article on emulation. https://www.openbsd.org/60.html shows OpenBSD removing "Linux emulation."

Linux was never designed to be the same as Unix, just similar. But it's more popular now, so Unix users found utility in pretending to run Linux.

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