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    Wine acronym (lemmy.ca)
    submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    my favorite fact about Wine is that they could've named it Pine, Dine, Fine, Line, etc

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    It’s a cheeky play on “WINdows Emulator” as well as “WINE’s Is Not an Emulator”, but I think for both legal (trademark) and logistical (it really isn’t an emulator) reasons, you’ll never officially see that bit sanctioned

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    It’s a cheeky play on “WINdows Emulator”

    It's not an emulator though. That's literally what the name is explaining!

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

    It does emulate the windows environment

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Pine was already taken by an email reader. One of the early ascii email readers was called elm, for ELectronic Mail. Pine was made after elm and it stands for Pine Is Not Elm.

    [–] skulblaka 4 points 3 months ago

    I'm starting to get the impression that most software older than me is defined more by what it isn't than by what it is.