Wine lecture slides

[Shachar Shemesh]

Marcelo Duarte wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Mike Hearn" <mike at theoretic.com>
>To: "Shachar Shemesh" <wine-devel at shemesh.biz>
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>>* I say Wine is an emulator. I don't know how to read the official
>>definition, it could go both ways, but I've found the whole "Wine Is Not
>>an Emulator" thing just confuses newbies :)
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>I taste to think that the "Wine is a simulator", because it simulates the
>Windows environment. Poverty not?
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>>* Slide 17 - 3rd file type is NE (win16 binary). PE = Portable
>>Executable. NE = ?????, but the N is bound to stand for something
>>stupid, like "new" or whatever....
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>Yes, NE = New Executable, as the opposite to format MZ, that was the
>predominant format until the new creation. Already MZ I do not remember what
>it means.
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>M.
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MZ are the first two bytes of the file, identifying it as an executable. 
I'm not aware that they mean anything at all.

             Shachar

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