John McKown wrote:

>David Crayford wrote:

>> It was a legitimate question. Maybe not the wine you were thinking of.
>> Linux/wine is an emulator which enables windows programs to run on Linux.

>WINE == "Wine Is Not an Emulator". ​

Open a bottle, pour a glass full of your favourite drinkable wine and read this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)

(That page also has a link to "recursive acronym")

>And, yes, I know that it is considered an emulator and the acronym ​usage ​is 
>a bit passé any more.

Sometimes developers need to think out a strange acronym or something funny to 
attract attention to get their products out...

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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