I stand corrected! I confess I never used it and — obviously! — never learned what “WINE” stood for. (And kudos for a very nice self-referential acronym!)
-chris > On Jan 23, 2023, at 8:41 AM, Lorenzo Bertini <lorenzobertin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 23/01/23 15:01, Christopher Menzel wrote: >> Virtualization is not emulation. An emulator (like WINE) makes use of a >> software bridge to simulate a different hardware environment, with a high >> cost in performance; software running on an emulator interacts with the >> bridge, not directly with the hardware. > Completely off-topic, but from wikipedia: >> Wine (formerly a recursive backronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator" [...]) is >> a free and open-source compatibility layer [...] >> Wine provides its compatibility layer for Windows runtime system which >> translates Windows API calls into POSIX API calls, recreating the directory >> structure of Windows, and providing alternative implementations of Windows >> system libraries, system services through wineserver and various other >> components [...]. > > Wine can, and often will, run at higher than native speeds, compared to a > same machine with Windows. -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
