On 2020-01-08, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: >> >> I consider natively to denote a device (in this case) that works without >> the requirement of any software emulation to lead it to believe it is >> functioning on a OS different from the host OS. > > That's a pretty odd interpretation: very few physical devices > have any knowledge of the operating system that they are hooked > to, and just want to be addresses according to a given protocol.
I guess it probably is a very strange interpretation, but I can find no other interpretation of the word "natively" in computerese. If what you're saying is true, I suppose the term should not be applied to a hardware device at all (which was kind of my entire point from the very start). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_(computing) -- "J'ai pour me guérir du jugement des autres toute la distance qui me sépare de moi." Antonin Artaud