From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 7 18:47:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA23655 for current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 18:47:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eel.dataplex.net (EEL.DATAPLEX.NET [199.183.109.245]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA23650; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 18:47:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [199.183.109.242] (cod [199.183.109.242]) by eel.dataplex.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA01699; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 20:47:46 -0500 X-Sender: rkw@shark.dataplex.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 20:47:46 -0500 To: Greg Lehey From: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Subject: Re: Linux Willows? Cc: current@freefall.freebsd.org Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> Greg Lehey stands accused of saying: >> > > >> > > There isn't one. _Please_ also note that the TWIN XPDK is _NOT_ a >> > > windows emulator. It is a cross-development platform for porting >> > > Windows applications to Unices. >> > >> > Well, part of it emulates Windoze, specifically the xwin program. >> >> Correct. You'll note that it's a development tool though, not a Windows >> emulator. > > >What's in a name? That which we call a rose and all that. There is a big difference in a cross platform system and an emulator. In the former case, you are effectively defining a new system that is emulated on each of the platforms. In this case, the emulation has to handle only those constructs which are used by the development language. To be a general emulator of another system, the emulator must handle ALL of the constructs of that system. In general, that is a much larger set.