From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Not-emulators (was AMD processors and assembly language)
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 18:13:16 +0000
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Hello.

Damian Yerrick wrote:
> > > One day, Kalum Somaratna made the following words appear on our
> > > screens:
> > > You know what the name WINE means?
> > >
> > > Wine Is Not an Emulator.

I think there may be an element of irony in that name. Most people seem to
be missing that.

> Much the same way you IMPLEMENT Win32 on a platform.

In Microsoft's own words, Win32 is a platform (or, rather, a collection of
platforms) - hence the platform SDK, etc. Whether you accept that is
another question...

So, on the basis Win32 is a platform, you can implement the Win32 API,
i.e. as in Wine. But if you implement a Win32 platform you get Windows
'95, Windows NT, Windows 2000.

> You lose, Grendel.

Why? Is this a competition or something?

Anyway, this is a futile argument. At the end of the day these programs
allow you to do some pretty cool stuff. If only they could do it slightly
faster on my computer ;)

BTW Damien, don't you think that using the word b******t in your no-spam
e-mail address is a bit offensive?

Bye,

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Richard Dawe
richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com ICQ 47595498 http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/