Well is it an adaptor or an emulator?
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Tom Berkley mewed:
> 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~
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