Exactly. If you add a what is essentially a new library, would you call
that an emulator. No, its just a library of api functionality. Would you
call a c, or c++, or fortran compiler an emulator.
Tom
Russ Johnson wrote:
>
> 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~
