From: Damian Yerrick <Bullshitd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullshit>
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Subject: Re: Not-emulators (was AMD processors and assembly language)
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On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 08:37:21 -0600, Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
wrote:

>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.

Asking Jeeves "What is an emulator?"

comp.emulators.misc FAQ, section 1.2
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/emulators-faq/part1/
66
For the record, there is no such thing as an X "emulator;"
X is a standard. You IMPLEMENT it on a platform, not EMULATE it.
99
Much the same way you IMPLEMENT Win32 on a platform.
You lose, Grendel.

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
http://nightflight.com/cgi-bin/foldoc.cgi?emulation
66
One system is said to emulate another when it performs in exactly the
same way, though perhaps not at the same speed. A typical example
would be emulation of one computer by (a program running on) another.
You might use an emulation as a replacement for a system whereas you
would use a simulation if you just wanted to analyse it and make
predictions about it. 
99
I don't like the FOLDOC definition because it implies that simple
implementation of the same standard that another system implements
would be considered emulation.  Would you call XFree86 an
"X11 emulator"?


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