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Sure, but it's also WINdows Emulator

No, it's not, because it's not a emulator

"In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest)."

Sounds like Wine.

Wine isn't emulating a computer. It's another implementation of the Win32 API.

Just like Linux isn't a Unix emulator.

There is a Linux emulator for Unix (namely FreeBSD), and it's one of the first examples in the Wikipedia article on emulation. https://www.openbsd.org/60.html shows OpenBSD removing "Linux emulation."

Linux was never designed to be the same as Unix, just similar. But it's more popular now, so Unix users found utility in pretending to run Linux.

Well you know.. I guess I'm OG when it comes to naming.

I believe it now actually is again, or was, or something. It's a question when dealing with Win16 and now Win32 (Windows-on-Windows).

Ha Perfect!

Yes, wine is an Windows binary executor with library translation.

https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#Is_Wine_an_emulator.3F_There_see...

Except sometimes on aarch64