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Why is wine "not an emulator"?

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Isn't the difference between Windows apps and Linux apps just libraries asked by applications running? (see previous question) How is possible then to make Windows applications running on a Linux system by software which is "not an emulator"!

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From here (archived version, because that Wiki page is currently missing) Wine's not that kind of emulator When users think of emulators, they think of programs like Dosbox or zsnes. These applications run as virtual machines and are slow, having to…

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