From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 5 14:27:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E684A1588D for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 14:27:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA37675; Wed, 5 May 1999 14:27:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: "Dale Anderson" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCWeek article by Anne Chen -- Comments In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 May 1999 11:02:35 CDT." Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 14:27:57 -0700 Message-ID: <37672.925939677@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "Not bright enough to understan d ????" What us IT people mean, is that running an application under emulati on means it will run a little slower, as that middle abstraction layer has to e mulate and that takes CPU cycles. Another reason is that if you talk to some s Like I said in another posting, "emulation" is not the correct term to be using here then since no "middle abstraction layer" is being used in the case of Linux binary compatibility (see, there's the new phrase you should be using right there :). - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message