"Mike Hearn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From a dictionary: > > "em·u·late: Computer Science. To imitate the function of (another > system), as by modifications to hardware or software that allow the > imitating system to accept the same data, execute the same programs, and > achieve the same results as the imitated system."
You've just called Linux a Unix emulator :-) I'm always tempted to mention DRDOS, x86 processors, PC motherboards, PC BIOS'es around, VGA compatible video cards, Soundblaster compatible sound cards, netword cards of all flavours, language compilers, etc: all of them are the emulators according to the definition above. The better word is "clone" if you don't like a wordy "independent implementation". -- Dmitry.