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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 08:21:53 +0600 (LKT)
From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
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Subject: Re: Not-emulators (was AMD processors and assembly language)
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On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Richard Dawe wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> Damian Yerrick wrote:
> > > > One day, Kalum Somaratna made the following words appear on our
> > > > screens:
> > > > You know what the name WINE means?
> > > >
> > > > Wine Is Not an Emulator.
> 
> I think there may be an element of irony in that name. Most people seem to
> be missing that.


Yes the same way as GNU (Gnu's Not Unix) is named. It is important not to
take these names too literarily.

Kalum

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:)

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