Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 11:54:13 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linuxulator: emulation? [was: Q: Extending the sysctl MIB...] Message-ID: <71135.934829653@localhost> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Aug 1999 08:22:42 -0000." <37B7CA52.B6CEB30@scc.nl>
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All of this would be true if your personal definition of "emulator" were the prevailing one, but that is unfortunately just not the case. :) When the average computing public thinks of an "emulator", they think of something like MAME or the SNES emulator. Even the more compute-minded folks tend to think of BOCHS or SIMOS when they hear the word "emulator" and I need only point to the majority of entries in /usr/ports/emulators in support of this. :-) In any case, my point is simply that we need to be careful in our use of terminology if we don't want to lend the majority the impression that our linux "emulation" code goes through the same sorts of gyrations that MAME does to run linux binaries. I do get questions at trade shows all the time about this, and I can state without reservation that none of the people asking about it share Marcel's definition of the term. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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