So you want to build an embedded Linux system? (2020)

Re:So you want to build an embedded Linux system? (2020) by blueflow on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @05:19PM (#30279345)

Wine actually IS an emulator, just not the kind of emulator you think of. While wine is not an virtual machine, it literally emulates the win32 api.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150928042254/http://wiki.wineh...

I mentioned the shift of meaning to "virtual machine" in the post you replied to, please read it more carefully.

Emulation and Simulation are different in some regard: emulation is only imitating some aspect of a thing, while simulation imitates a thing by using (usually physical) models.

xterm is a VTxxx emulator, and VT simulator does look like this: https://www.pcjs.org/machines/dec/vt100/

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Re:So you want to build an embedded Linux system? (2020) by monocasa on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @05:47PM (#30279753)

I'd argue that wine is a bit of a stretch considering that we're on the third implemention of win32 in Microsoft land as well (DOS/win32s, Win95, NT/Win32k). At that point win32 is a concept already abstracted away from a specific implementation

I totally agree with your main point though that emulation is a broader topic than is generally thought.

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Re:So you want to build an embedded Linux system? (2020) by anthk on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @07:09PM (#30280692)

Then Windows NT is emulating Win32.

Also, back in the day emulators emulated the CPU for sure, while an API implementation wasn't never called "emulation". Ever.

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Re:So you want to build an embedded Linux system? (2020) by blueflow on Thursday February 10, 2022 @03:48AM (#30283769)

xterm calls itself an emulator in the manpage right now.

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