On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 17:14:09 +0100, Steve Borrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >There's wine, the windows emulator. It takes a windows application and > >translates the calls it makes into something X can handle, so you can run > >the app right in X. www.winehq.com > > <smug> > Just because I am in a pedantic mood, I would like to point out that saying > "wine is a windows emulator" is an oxymoron. WINE stands for > "Wine is not an emulator", therefore proving itself that your statement is > woefully > inaccurate. *grin* > </smug>
Quite true. Strictly speaking, WINE is simply an independently-created (i.e. contains no Windows code whatsoever) compatability layer which translates Windows calls to GNU/Linux ones (as mentioned above). An emulator, on the other hand, runs an entire OS (or a clone) inside a virtual machine (like how Java apps run). Examples include Plex86, FreeDOS, VMware and Win4Lin. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "Also note how I said that it is the BSD people I despise. Not the HP-UX implementation. The HP-UX one is not pretty, but it works. But I hold open source people to higher standards. They are supposed to be the people who do programming because it's an art-form, not because it's their job." -- Linus Torvalds
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