Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

[Ron Stodden]

Michael Holt wrote:
> 
> Well, in my dictionary 'WINE' stands for WINdows Emulator.

No.  WINE is an acronym for:

WINE Is Not an Emulator.

This follows the GNU recursive model:

GNU is Not Unix.

Wine is not an emulator or a simulator - Windows programs directly
execute on a Linux implementation of the Windows Application Program
Interface (API), and should run just as fast (maybe faster?) as they
do under an MS API implementation.

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Regards,

Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.