• 4am@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      It’s a cheeky play on “WINdows Emulator” as well as “WINE’s Is Not an Emulator”, but I think for both legal (trademark) and logistical (it really isn’t an emulator) reasons, you’ll never officially see that bit sanctioned

      • danA
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        4 months ago

        It’s a cheeky play on “WINdows Emulator”

        It’s not an emulator though. That’s literally what the name is explaining!

    • Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      Pine was already taken by an email reader. One of the early ascii email readers was called elm, for ELectronic Mail. Pine was made after elm and it stands for Pine Is Not Elm.

      • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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        4 months ago

        I’m starting to get the impression that most software older than me is defined more by what it isn’t than by what it is.