Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

[Michael Holt]

AARGH!  That's simply a play on words!!!!  You stated the fact yourself
- the program that's NORMALLY executed on a WINDOWS platform is allowed
now to run on a LINUX platform.  You EMULATE the Windows enviroment so
that you can run that program in a Linux enviroment.

~Mike~

Ron Stodden wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.

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Michael Holt
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