After takin' a swig o' grog, Peter Köhlmann belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> Hadron wrote:
>
> < snip >
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>> We did all this before. The "Wine is not en emulator" is bandied about
>> by guys who think an "emulator" is a HW only thing. WINE is and was an
>> emulator. It emulates the Win32 API since all the had to go on was (a)
>> some dissassembly and (b) the API itself.
>>
> If Wine is an "emulator", than so is Glibc. Or the (pisspoor) posix
> subsystem in windows.
>
> Wine is simply another API. It provides the windows API inside linux.
> For that it does not need to "emulate" very much.
Sounds like a "reimplementation", not an "emulator", to me.
An emulator is what Niklaus Wirth wrote for the Data General Eclipse, as
described in Tracy Kidder's "Soul of a New Machine".
Ahh, the dangers of recruiting an English word into a technical specialty!
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