aye, agree anyways, my point is that describing something wrong is not a good idea even if it would make people easily understand what it's for, especially not when you can explain someting right and still make people as easily understand it's purpose:)
Adam Williamson wrote: >On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 00:49, Ben Reser wrote: > > > >>I most certianly *DO* understand the difference. But you're applying >>the term emulator to only processor emulation which is certainly a fine >>distinction that maybe hackers make, but the dictionary and common users >>do not make! And considering that for the most part Mandrake is for >>common users not hackers (though some of us use Mandrake) we should be >>using language common users understand not elitist hacker definitions. >> >> > >Actually I don't think wine really *does* fit in with most people's >conception of an emulator. When I run an emulator I expect a recreation >of the original machine / OS / whatever. wine expressly doesn't provide >this; you don't run wine and get a windows desktop with a start button >and an annoying paperclip, etc. you use wine to run windows programs, >it's not exactly emulating windows because you can't run wine then point >at something and go "look! windows!". badly phrased, but I hope you get >what I mean. > >
