Re: Wine lecture slides

[Shachar Shemesh]

Marcelo Duarte wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Hearn" 
> To: "Shachar Shemesh"
> > - 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 :)
>
> I taste to think that the "Wine is a simulator", because it simulates the
> Windows environment. Poverty not?
> > - 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....
>
> 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.
>
> M.

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