Re: Linuxulator: emulation? [was: Q: Extending the sysctl MIB...]

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

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


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