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How do you mean?

Well, the linked article references Ruffle and "Ruffle is an Adobe Flash Player emulator".

On the other hand "emulator" is usually some hardware emulation. Whereas the flas player was basically a runtime / vm for Flash files. And Ruffle is a different runtime implementation.

It's like saying any non-oracle Java is a "Java emulator".

Scummvm for example follows that line of thought: "ScummVM is a complete rewrite of these games' executables and is not an emulator."

Anyway, given what Ruffle says I would probably side with them....

I mean, but it is a Java emulator.. I was actually thinking of that in my head as an example of an emulator that's non-hardware when I read the first part of your comment. Wine technically Is Not an Emulator by name, but they felt the need to make that distinction despite emulating a piece of software..

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