cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/21374304

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/21374246

What’s new in this release:

  • Initial support for user32 data structures in shared memory.
  • Mono engine updated to version 9.2.0.
  • Rewrite of the CMD.EXE engine.
  • Fixed handling of async I/O status in new WoW64 mode.
  • Various bug fixes.
  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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    6 months ago

    It just came to my mind, that WINE not only stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator, but also could be interpreted as: WINdows Emulator.

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      6 months ago

      I wonder if that was intentional, before I knew the acronym I always thought the WIN part stood for windows. But they added an E so it would spell Wine instead. Calling a program Win would just be confusing.

      • Toes♀@ani.social
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        6 months ago

        In the days of DOS you would run ‘win’ to open windows assuming it was installed and not in your autoexec