> This is also why they do Windows on Linux emulation.
They don't. They use WINE, which as the name says, Is Not an Emulator. :D
(I'll let my pedantic self out now)
They don't. They use WINE, which as the name says, Is Not an Emulator. :D
(I'll let my pedantic self out now)
What is it emulating exactly?
And yes it did had emulators for Windows 16, and DOS
e.g. it's probably a security vuln if loading a Game Boy ROM reads arbitrary paths on your local filesystem determined by the ROM's code, not so much with Wine.
Someone made a cute demonstration that I think usefully encapsulates this a while ago. [1]
WINE is … well, most directly it’s just an implementation of an API (the Windows APIs). In webdev parlance it might be called a “polyfill”. Perhaps a “compatibility shim”?