Ventura graphics Mac

[Christopher Menzel]

I stand corrected!

I confess I never used it and — obviously! — never learned what “WINE” stood for. (And kudos for a very nice self-referential acronym!)

-chris

> On Jan 23, 2023, at 8:41 AM, Lorenzo Bertini <lorenzobertini97 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 23/01/23 15:01, Christopher Menzel wrote:
>> Virtualization is not emulation. An emulator (like WINE) makes use of a software bridge to simulate a different hardware environment, with a high cost in performance; software running on an emulator interacts with the bridge, not directly with the hardware.
> Completely off-topic, but from wikipedia:
>> Wine (formerly a recursive backronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator" [...]) is a free and open-source compatibility layer [...]
>> Wine provides its compatibility layer for Windows runtime system which translates Windows API calls into POSIX API calls, recreating the directory structure of Windows, and providing alternative implementations of Windows system libraries, system services through wineserver and various other components [...].
> 
> Wine can, and often will, run at higher than native speeds, compared to a same machine with Windows.