emulator: An emulator is a software program to make, for example, one type of computer or operating system work like another, or allow programs designed to run on one type of computer or operating system to run on a different computor or operating system. There are other approaches to accomplish the same thing -- see for exammple, Win4Lin, VMWare, and <there is a freeware thingie>.

See:

• dosemu
• wine
• UWin -- Allows you to build and run Unix executables on Windows.

Resources

• (rhk) Ship in a Bottle: Running Linux Under Linux; David HM Spector; 06/06/2002 -- Discusses several simulators for Windows and Linux (to test several different configurations of Linux on one box, or at least that was the intent, as I understood it).

Contributors

• RandyKramer - 06 Feb 2002
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