Question regarding the debate over whether Wine Is Not an Emulator or not..
In the wine users guide intro it says, and I quote: The former method uses emulation to connect a Windows application to the Wine libraries. You can run your Windows application directly with the emulator, by installing through Wine or by simply copying the Windows executables onto your Linux system. Should I change this or no, because AFAIK, to some people "emulators have not and will not ever un things as fast as the original" and that would give them a bad idea about wine. -Dustin __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2
Why not just address that critique of emulators in the specific context of WINE? Personally, I think that would be more effective. Something like "And while some may think that emulators are doomed to painfully substandard performance...." And then fill in with arguments like...well, wine isn't REALLY an emulator persay...or something like that. On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 17:22, Dustin Navea wrote:
In the wine users guide intro it says, and I quote:
The former method uses emulation to connect a Windows application to the Wine libraries. You can run your Windows application directly with the emulator, by installing through Wine or by simply copying the Windows executables onto your Linux system.
Should I change this or no, because AFAIK, to some people "emulators have not and will not ever un things as fast as the original" and that would give them a bad idea about wine.
-Dustin
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On 8 Nov 2002, Marcus Brubaker wrote:
Why not just address that critique of emulators in the specific context of WINE? Personally, I think that would be more effective. Something like "And while some may think that emulators are doomed to painfully substandard performance...." And then fill in with arguments like...well, wine isn't REALLY an emulator persay...or something like that.
If going that way you can use the following: Debunking Wine Myths 1. Myth 1: "Wine is slow because it is an emulator" http://www.winehq.com/about/index.php?myths -- Francois Gouget fgouget(a)free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/ Linux, WinNT, MS-DOS - also known as the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
--- Francois Gouget <fgouget(a)free.fr> wrote:
On 8 Nov 2002, Marcus Brubaker wrote:
Why not just address that critique of emulators in the specific context of WINE? Personally, I think that would be more effective. Something like "And while some may think that emulators are doomed to painfully substandard performance...." And then fill in with arguments like...well, wine isn't REALLY an emulator persay...or something like that.
If going that way you can use the following:
Debunking Wine Myths
1. Myth 1: "Wine is slow because it is an emulator" http://www.winehq.com/about/index.php?myths
Sounds good to me... and put a cross link to it right after the word emulator... -Dustin __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2
On November 8, 2002 10:22 pm, Francois Gouget wrote:
If going that way you can use the following:
Debunking Wine Myths
1. Myth 1: "Wine is slow because it is an emulator" http://www.winehq.com/about/index.php?myths
Yeah, that's a good start. But I think it's better to avoid the whole issue by just not using the work emulator that much. It doesn't seem to matter that we say it's NOT an emulator. People seem to remember something about an emulator... :( We should try to position Wine as a (1) PE loader, and (2) toolkit. Both are Good Things in geek culture (see ELF loader, and GTK/QT/wxWindows), so hopefully we'll have fewer battles to fight. -- Dimi.
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