I thought it was an implemantation of Win32 DLL's in Linux?

Lamar Owen wrote:
On Saturday 27 September 2003 08:58 am, Panu Matilainen wrote:
  
Dunno, kudos to Wine folks I guess.. if an "emulated" application starts up
and runs faster than a "native" one... what can I say :-/
    

Wine Is Not an Emulator.  It is an API translator, and acts as a relatively 
(given what it does) thin one at that.  Word on Linux should be nearly as fast 
as Word on Windows; and I have in fact verified that.