Fact check for wine talk
Tom Wickline
twickline at gmail.com
Fri Feb 10 15:01:21 CST 2006
On 2/10/06, Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dan Kegel wrote:
> > If you find any errors in the side, please let me know!
>
> Just one.
> "Wine is not an emulator"...
>
> Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary:
> =================================
> emulator (n) (computing)
> A device or piece of software that enable a program
> or an item of equipment intended for one type of
> computer to be used with exactly the same results
> with another type of computer.
> =================================
>
> According to that definition, Wine IS an emulator (as long as you
> consider "Windows PC" and "Linux PC" two different types of
> "computers").
Seems more like a compatibility layer to me :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility_layer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulator
Tom
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> :-)
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