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Old 2012-04-03, 03:15 PM   [Ignore Me] #26
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Re: Planetside 2 for Linux?


Originally Posted by CyclesMcHurtz View Post
I'm asserting that WINE is a translator, not an emulator. If you don't understand a language (i.e. German) you get a translator. This is the case with Windows v. Linux. The hardware can be exactly the same, thus not really emulating anything.

If you want to run Windows 3.11 software (Minesweeper!) on your Windows 7 system, you run in compatability mode - which translates the Windows 3.11 calls into Windows 7 calls. You're still using a graphics card that Windows nativity understands, along with Mouse, Keyboard, Disk Drive, etc.
CyclesMcHurtz pulls out the big guns. Well done. At the least, we know that you know your stuff.
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