I don't think so.
I've been in the computer field professionally for 19 years, and I have
never heard this distinction raised. Perhaps it's made in Electrical
Engineering circles, but in computer science and the general population,
the distinction seems to be that an emlator emulates hardware, and a
simulator drives active hardware that immerses the human in the
experience; eg,
"Flight simulator", "Motion simultor", and so forth.
Anyway, Mandrake uses the term as I do; eg,
[bts@i7500 ~]# grep emulator allpkgs
Summary : A free, portable Mac II emulator
Basilisk II is a free, portable, Open Source 68k Mac emulator. It requires
Summary : A DOS emulator.
Dosemu is a DOS emulator. Once you've installed dosemu, start the DOS
emulator by typing in the dos command.
Summary : A FreeDOS hdimage for dosemu, a DOS emulator, to use.
Generally, the dosemu DOS emulator requires either that your system
Eterm is a color vt102 terminal emulator intended as an xterm
Summary : A Kanji (Japanese character set) terminal emulator for X.
The kterm package provides a terminal emulator for the Kanji Japanese
Install kterm if you need a Kanji character set terminal emulator.
or terminal emulator.
Summary : rxvt - terminal emulator in an X window
Rxvt is a VT100 terminal emulator for X. It is intended as a replacement
Summary : A color VT102 terminal emulator for the X Window System.
Rxvt is a color VT102 terminal emulator for the X Window System.
terminal emulators. Certain programs use the /etc/termcap file to
Drum machine emulator for the K Desktop Environment.
Summary : MS-Windows emulator
Wine, the Windows emulator, allows running win 3.*, win95, winNT programs
Summary : MS-Windows emulator (version whith debug info)
Wine, the Windows emulator, allows running win 3.*, win95, winNT programs
Summary : An X Window System based IBM 3278/3279 terminal emulator.
IBM 3278/3279 terminal emulator.
Summary : A DOS emulator for the X Window System.
Xdosemu is a version of the dosemu DOS emulator that runs with the X
[There are no matches whatsoever for simulator.]
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| Michael Holt wrote:
| >
| > 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.
|
| Wrong! In this industry 'emulate' has been defined for decades as
| representing a hardware implementation of something else. If the
| implementation is done in software, then the proper terminology is
| 'simulation'. BTW, WINE is neither.
|
| --
|
| Regards,
|
| Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
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