[Wine] windows XP versus wine

["Jörg Kühne"]

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Thu, 22 May 2008 10:49:26 -0500
> Von: "vitamin" <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
> An: wine-users at winehq.org
> Betreff: [Wine]  Re: windows XP versus wine

> 
> Jörg Kühne wrote:
> > Hallo wine user team,
> > 
> > I am not sure if I need an original XP version to work with wine. In
> other words. Can I use wine without installing XP, for example. Because I have
> several old applications, which I would like to run on linux together with
> wine. Would wine emulates the hardware like a virtual machine, or takes
> wine the local hardware to deal with?
> 
> You should read FAQ. All these questions are answered there already.
> http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ
> 
> 
> 
> 
Hello again,

not all of them are listed in FAQ. As far as I have seen, there is nothing about hardware emulation. Is it possible, if I have the newest hardware that the artificial windows XP from wine doesn't run on it, or emulates wine a older hardware which is compatible?

regards,

Joerg

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