Re: Fact check for wine talk

[Tom Wickline]

On 2/10/06, Molle Bestefich  wrote:
> Dan Kegel wrote:
> > If you find any errors in the side, please let me know!
>
> Just one.
> "Wine is not an emulator"...
> Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary:
>
> emulator (n) (computing)
>   A device or piece of software that enable a program
>   or an item of equipment intended for one type of
>   computer to be used with exactly the same results
>   with another type of computer.
> =================================
>
> According to that definition, Wine IS an emulator (as long as you
> consider "Windows PC" and "Linux PC" two different types of
> "computers").

Seems more like a compatibility layer to me :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility_layer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulator

Tom
> :-)