From: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Not-emulators (was AMD processors and assembly language)
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 08:37:21 -0600
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Wilmer van der Gaast wrote:
> 
> One day, Kalum Somaratna made the following words appear on our screens:
> > > Wine Is Not an Emulator in the strictest sense ;-)
> >
> > Well in reality it is a emulator, it enables windoze programs to run under
> > linux, it emulates the win32 API. SO it is a emulator.
> >
> You know what the name WINE means?
> 
> Wine Is Not an Emulator.

You are not arguing the substance here, but rather the definition of the
term 'emulator'.  As is always in such cases, you need to find an agreed
upon authoritative definition of the term 'emulator' first and then
proceed from there.

Homework for today:
1. Wilmer, Kalum, Demian: each give a concise definition of the term
'emulator' or 'emulation' and _cite_ the source.  ('I have always
thought ....' and 'so and so said ...' doesn't count, unless you can
back it up with a source.)

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Weiqi Gao
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