Well that’s LAME
But I thought LAME Ain’t an MP3 Encoder?!
Actually I never got that. WINE isn’t an emulator, but LAME very much is an MP3 encoder
Next you’re going to tell me the People’s Republic of North Korea isnt a Republic?
well it sure as hell ain’t the people’s
“The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is neither Democratic, nor the people’s, nor a republic.”
- Voltaire
GNU Hurd.
It’s time [to] explain the meaning of “Hurd”. “Hurd” stands for “Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons”. And, then, “Hird” stands for “Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth”. We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.
– Thomas (then Michael) Bushnell
And then they slapped the GNU’s not UNIX infront for good measure
GTK = GNU’s Not Unix Image Manipulation Program Tool Kit
EMACS makes all coding suck
VIM is marvelousEight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping
You can wine about it all day - it still isn’t an emulator.
I’ve always thought of this
GNU’s Not Unix! moment
GNU’s not Unix image manipulation program toolkit.
RecursionError: Maximum recursion depth exceeded image manipulation toolkit
My personal favorite acronym like that definitely goes to AROS (Amiga Research Operating System) that if I remember correctly had to - for legal reasons - change the name. Rather than come up with a completely new name, went with AROS Research Operating System.
Edit: name change was apparently to avoid any trademark issues with the Amiga name.
Windows should emulate Linux so it can run wine on its arm chips.
WSL 3 wishlist starts here
I refuse to use 2 because it breaks all my shit.
OG WSL 1 for me, or just Linux lol
Qemu if you can get it. It is a little hard to learn but it can use Hyper-V acceleration
It’s harder to set up windows without giving microsoft the right to let 72 virgins rape your ass than to use QEMU.
It kind of is though.
Not really. It is just translating the Windows system API calls into Linux system API calls. It’s not emulating Windows, it’s an entirely different implementation that doesn’t necessarily match that of Microsoft’s implementation. It had it own workarounds to make buggy code work.
You wouldn’t call a Java Virtual Machine an emulator of another JVM either, they’re just different implementations of the same specification.
Thing is, I do kind of think of a JVM as an emulator for a processor that doesn’t exist.
WINE kind of blurs the line of a traditional emulator by having the executable run natively on the target machine’s CPU, but everything it does in regards to dealing with the host OS, the display, disk access, etc, is emulated as far as I’m aware.
A theoretical PS4 or Xbox One emulator running on x86 hardware could be just as much of an emulator as WINE is.
my favorite fact about Wine is that they could’ve named it Pine, Dine, Fine, Line, etc
It’s a cheeky play on “WINdows Emulator” as well as “WINE’s Is Not an Emulator”, but I think for both legal (trademark) and logistical (it really isn’t an emulator) reasons, you’ll never officially see that bit sanctioned
Pine was already taken by an email reader. One of the early ascii email readers was called elm, for ELectronic Mail. Pine was made after elm and it stands for Pine Is Not Elm.
I’m starting to get the impression that most software older than me is defined more by what it isn’t than by what it is.
