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calcifer on May 9, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS

> Wine clearly is an emulator of the Windows APIs

No, WINE is a third party implementation of Windows APIs, that doesn't make it an emulator. Otherwise, Oracle JDK would be an "OpenJDK emulator".

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