I'm confused; who said Wine is an emulator?

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> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 23:47:32 +0800
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Split screen ISPF edit copy?
> To: [email protected]
> 
> In fact it is not an emulator which its name implies:
> 
> Wine (recursive acronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator) is a free and open 
> source compatibility layer software application that aims to allow 
> applications designed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating 
> systems. Wine also provides a software library, known as Winelib, against 
> which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to 
> Unix-like systems.[1]
> 
> 
> 
> > On 24 Jun 2015, at 9:28 pm, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Thread hijacker!
> > 
> > I try to avoid mixing wine and mainframe programming.
> > 
> > Charles
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> > Behalf Of David Crayford
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 5:54 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Split screen ISPF edit copy?
> > 
> >> On 24/06/2015 8:06 AM, Tom Brennan wrote:
> >> Charles Mills wrote:
> >> 
> >>> I think there are several paste type options (emulated keystroke
> >>> etc.) in Vista; you might look for that in x3270.
> >> 
> >> I haven't used x3270 lately, but I'd look for a block-mode option or 
> >> something similar.  The unix folks who I assume wrote that program are 
> >> more stream oriented, and we tend to like our data in rectangles.
> > 
> > Has anybody tried running Vista using wine?
> > 
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