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 18 Mar 2000 17:36:21 GMT, lintux_doesnt_like_spam AT lintux DOT cx (Wilmer
van der Gaast) wrote:

>But I still think that, if the Wine authors say their program is not
>an emulator, we shouldn't call it an emulator...

I reserve the term "Windows emulator" for Connectix Virtual PC.

>Might be a good idea to figure out how we should call it then? :)

I'd call it a binary compatibility layer to run Microsoft Windows
compatible programs on i386 *NIX with X.  "Windows BCL" for short.
This is explained at http://www.winehq.com/about.html

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