[ale] OT: Re: posting to Linux mail list

[da Black Baron]

On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 07:46, aaron wrote:

> This is of course assuming that one abides by the definition of emulation and 
> doesn't mis-label FreeBSD and Linux as such. ;-) 

Yes, I was in a very long and protracted argument on a BBS, back in "the
day", over whether Linux was an "emulator" or not.  He wouldn't back
down even when I pointed out that an "emulator" properly requires
another OS underneath it's emulation layer in order to function, whereas
Linux is fully-functional without the help of any other kernel.  

I think he was confused because I was talking about zipslack, which runs
on an DOS partition, and booting with loadlin.  He wouldn't accept that
DOS was being unloaded, I guess... hahahaha.  :-)

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