On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 18:21:18 -0500, Evil wrote:
No, of course not. Now, if the gas had to be converted to a completely different substance before it could power the car, then it would probably be an emulator.
Ah, car analogies, the developers favourite tool :)
From a dictionary:
"em·u·late: 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 the imitated system."
Seems like a good description of Wine to me. It imitates the Win32 API.