[Klug-general] Interactive Websites

[Peter Childs]

On 15/12/06, Jonathan Gill <jonathan.gill at securecirt.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> >> WINE IS NOT AN EMULATOR!!!!!! FFS WHEN WILL PEOPLE LEARN THIS, ITS
> >> SERIOUSLY LIKE WATCHING PEOPLE SLAM SQUARE PEGS INTO ROUND HOLES. WINE
> >> DOES NOT EMULATE IT CREATES AN INTERMEDIATE COMPATIBILITY LAYER!!!!!
> >>
> >
> > I know that but most people will call it an emulator it works like
> > one, it feels like one, it even has the word in its name. Its an
> > internal technical issue that its not.
>
> Let me add my 2 penny worth here... Wine (if I remember right) stands
> for Wine Is Not an Emulator.  So your statement is true, but completely
> wrong.
>
> Naming things correctly is a step in the right direction. Learn what the
> name means and you get an insite into what the software is about.  In
> this case, it does not emulate windows, but provides a layer that
> interprets the calls that windows makes and translates them to (amoung
> others) X11 calls.
>
> Yeah I know im nit picking, but it bugs me as well!
>
> No flame ment,
>
> Regards
>
> Jonathan
>
>
I don't disagree but the term Virus is often misused but we are all
happy that a virus may infact be a worm or a trojan hourse. Many terms
are like this its a fact of life.

Peter