Play on words or not, that's what the Wine team says it stands for.
To emulate, aren't you faking it? If they don't fake it, but actually have
the APIs, then it's not emulation, it's real. Hence, not emulation.
If it was hardware, then I'd say it had to be emulation. Since we're talking
software, the line is blurred. For a program designed to run on a Z80
processor to run on a 6802 requires an emulator. For a program that requires
Windows on a x86 processor to run on Linux on an x86, requires APIs. If
those APIs exist in Linux, then you aren't emulating, you are simply
providing what the program requires, under a different OS. The underlying
architecture is still the same.
Russ
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Holt
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 9:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
AARGH! That's simply a play on words!!!! You stated the fact yourself
- the program that's NORMALLY executed on a WINDOWS platform is allowed
now to run on a LINUX platform. You EMULATE the Windows enviroment so
that you can run that program in a Linux enviroment.
~Mike~
