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insomnia:
So you're actually accusing Wine for stealing MS code!?
Do you have any proof of this or are just trying to annoy people like in every other post you made.
You allways come up with the most absurt lies possible.
Ps. Wine doesn't emulate anything.
[ July 25, 2004: Message edited by: insomnia ]
Aloone_Jonez:
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I guess that running Linux on a Mac would be "emulation". You've modified a system (you removed Mac OS from the picture) and you're running an OS that was "made for" x86 PCs.
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No, you would no longer be running an OS made for the PC, because by the very act of recompiling the OS you are remaking it for a Mac, an emulator can run a program that was made for use on another system (be it a different Micro, or under a different OS on the same micro) with out modification to the code or data.
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So you're actually accusing Wine for stealing MS code!?
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NO!
When did I say that?
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Do you have any proof of this or are just trying to annoy people like in every other post you made.
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Ask the people at:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=emulator to change their definition then:
3. 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.
I know how Wine works.
An emulator dosn't have to emulate differant hardware it can just emulate a differant operating system.
Thus Wine Is Not a hardware Emulator.
Wine is a compatibility layer or an operating system API emulator.
It allows a Linux or UNIX system to execute a program that was compiled for Windows.
Wine loads the program into memory and the CPU is left to execute it as it normally would. Wine interprets the calls that the program normally makes to Windows and then either executes the equivalent UNIX call or if this dosn't exist, calls a routine in one of it's librarys. Some of these can be DLLs either written by the WINE developers or if you have Windows on your hard disk they can be native to Windows.
Jimmy & insomnia, I don't hate you , if I did I wouldn't reply to any of your posts.
I think that we are just arguing about words and interpretation.
You say Wine is not a hardware emulator, I agree I never said it was a hardware emulator.
I am just arguing that Wine alows Linux to run the same programs as Windows by emulation of the Windows API. The same way that DOSEMU is a DOS emulator for UNIX/Linux.
insomnia:
quote:I am just arguing that Wine alows Linux to run the same programs as Windows by emulation of the Windows API. The same way that DOSEMU is a DOS emulator for UNIX/Linux.
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Oh boy :rolleyes:
No that's not how it works.
That woudn't even be legal since you'd need MS code.
Wine is only compatible with it.
Wine doesn't use any MS code.
Emulators are slow, Wine isn't.
It doesn't emulate anything, it's a complete different system(like reactOS) that aims to be compatible with Windows programs.
Their isn't any form of emulating involved.
It's name (Wine is Not an Amulator) is NOT a joke!
That's just how it works.
What will be your next annoying claim.
Claiming GNU is UNIX?
Ps: Please stop pretending as if you understand API structures, you don't.
Also, find yourself a better dictionary...
[ July 25, 2004: Message edited by: insomnia ]
hm_murdock:
or perhaps that BSD "emulates" UNIX because you can run some SysV binaries.
hm_murdock:
Oh, and Aloone...
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