Comment by hot_gril
3 years ago
"In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest)."
Sounds like Wine.
3 years ago
"In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest)."
Sounds like Wine.
Wine isn't emulating a computer. It's another implementation of the Win32 API.
Just like Linux isn't a Unix emulator.
There is a Linux emulator for Unix (namely FreeBSD), and it's one of the first examples in the Wikipedia article on emulation. https://www.openbsd.org/60.html shows OpenBSD removing "Linux emulation."
Linux was never designed to be the same as Unix, just similar. But it's more popular now, so Unix users found utility in pretending to run Linux.