I've always thought of this
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2024
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When it bears repeating, let's make it recursive.
Of course not! It's a drink!
GNU Hurd.
It's time [to] explain the meaning of "Hurd". "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons". And, then, "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth". We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.
– Thomas (then Michael) Bushnell
LoL I guess acronyms that repeat on itself are a common thing in Linux
And then they slapped the GNU's not UNIX infront for good measure
Yaml ain't markup language
True is not cause it not emulating CPU/GPU of a different device, is more like a translator of sorts as it translates windows modules like directx and stuff in a way that Linux can interpret them and use them!
It kind of is though.
Not really. It is just translating the Windows system API calls into Linux system API calls. It's not emulating Windows, it's an entirely different implementation that doesn't necessarily match that of Microsoft's implementation. It had it own workarounds to make buggy code work.
You wouldn't call a Java Virtual Machine an emulator of another JVM either, they're just different implementations of the same specification.
I'd call a JVM an emulator. To the end user they're the same.
Thing is, I do kind of think of a JVM as an emulator for a processor that doesn't exist.
WINE kind of blurs the line of a traditional emulator by having the executable run natively on the target machine's CPU, but everything it does in regards to dealing with the host OS, the display, disk access, etc, is emulated as far as I'm aware.
A theoretical PS4 or Xbox One emulator running on x86 hardware could be just as much of an emulator as WINE is.
Yes but an emulator emulates both the CPU and GPU of the consoles and in the case of PS4 even thought the CPU is x86 the biggest difference I can think of is the GPU drivers.
Maybe depending on how far you take it. A CPU instruction is different from hardware to hardware, but a function signature would stay the same no matter the underlying architecture. If we want to go through that logic then an interpreter can be thought of as a form of emulator.
Well that's LAME
But I thought LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder?!
Actually I never got that. WINE isn't an emulator, but LAME very much is an MP3 encoder
Next you're going to tell me the People's Republic of North Korea isnt a Republic?
well it sure as hell ain’t the people’s
"The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is neither Democratic, nor the people's, nor a republic."
- Voltaire
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