User talk:DanShearer
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[edit] Welcome
Carry right on... I have no objection to discussion in public but email to dan@shearer.org might work more quickly :-)
[edit] User-mode Linux
Please see the change I just made to the UML page. You said the skas3 patch is required to run UML, and unless something has changed recently, I don't believe that is the case. Am I mistaken? ~leif ☺ HELO 23:01, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- No, you are quite correct. Thanks! Dan Shearer 07:19, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Emulation Software / Virtualization Software
Hi Dan, sorry I took so long to get back to you. I'm easy about emulation/virtualization, except for the fact that I've been in the field for 25 years and virtualization is a very new term, although the concept has existed happily under the umbrella of emulation for a good long time. A surrounding environment imitates a usually fairly complete subset of the behavior expected by an application originally designed for execution in an different environment. I use BSD jail myself, and am aware that the distinction here is very much more subtle than the one that normally pertains in emulation, where an application runs in an environment very different from that it originally ran in. I don't really have any time to spare for this so I'm happy to leave the details in your capable hands, although I would appreciate it if you found a useful place for a category that identifies emulators. The words virtualization software is likely to be rather opaque to someone just looking for an arcade game emulator. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 22:52, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Palm hardware speeds
A statement you made on the Xcopilot article has been disputed. (Though no one has said anything about it since last April...) The article said that Palm hardware runs at 20Mhz, but current Palms seem to run faster than that.
My guess is that 20Mhz is just how fast they were when you made the edit, but I thought I'd let you know about the discussion (if you can call it that) in case you have something to add. Jobarts-Talk 02:38, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
- Good point, have clarified in the Xcopilot talk page. Thanks. Dan
