On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 01:10:10AM +0200, Philippe Coulonges wrote: > Wine Is Not An Emulator. > > As such, it can only work on an Intel platform, executing native Windows > binaries. > Opposite to Windows, Linux works on many hardware platforms, but Wine can't, > because it is not an emulator. > > Does it makes the point clearer ?
No because you're still being silly. Wine may not emulate the processor. But it does emulate the DLLs and API functions that Microsoft Windows provides. Definition 3 from the American Heritage Dictionary (from previously provided dictionary.com URL) is: 3. Computer Science. To imitate the function of (another system), as by modifications to hardware or software that allow the imitating system to accept the same data, execute the same programs and achieve the same results as imiteated the system. Saying that WINE is not an emulator is runs simply counter to the everyday definition that most uers understand. It is an emulator. It just isn't emulating a processor which is what you're thinking of when you say emulator. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org If your love has no hope of being welcomed do not voice it; for if it be silent it can endure, a guarded flame, within you. - The Wisdom of the Sands
