Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

[Ron Stodden]

Michael Holt wrote:
> 
> AARGH!  That's simply a play on words!!!!  You stated the fact yourself
> - the program that's NORMALLY executed on a WINDOWS platform is allowed
> now to run on a LINUX platform.  You EMULATE the Windows enviroment so
> that you can run that program in a Linux enviroment.

Wrong!  In this industry 'emulate' has been defined for decades as
representing a hardware implementation of something else.  If the
implementation is done in software, then the proper terminology is
'simulation'.    BTW, WINE is neither.

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Regards,

Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.