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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by extropy on Monday August 15, 2022 @05:01PM (#32475326)
Wine is more like a re-implementation of windows Userland using a different kernel (and graphics libraries).

Since the hardware is all the same, there is nothing to emulate or compile.

Or from the other direction - windows NT contains a re-implementation of the win16 API. Is that an emulator?

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