Sorry to butt in, is wine an "adaptor" or an "emulator"?

I have heard both from different sources.

On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, Michael Holt mewed:
> Well, in my dictionary 'WINE' stands for WINdows Emulator.
> 
> Mike Fieschko wrote:
> 
> > >>> "Michael" == Michael Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >     Michael> What kind of problems?  I've heard their OS version of
> >     Michael> linux wasn't doing to hot, but I was hearing that WINE is
> >     Michael> working out pretty good.  I had doubts at first because
> >     Michael> anything that's emulated *should* be slower than the real
> >     Michael> thing, but again, I've been hearing the opposite.
> >
> > [snipped stuff, especially unnecessary html from Mozilla]
> >
> > But Wine is not an emulator.
> >
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> > Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA
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> Michael Holt
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