| ScratchMonkey 2005-09-27, 7:38 pm |
| Frank van Schie <frankNOSPAM@email.it> wrote in
news:49udnW7ZiogEl6TenZ2dnUVZ8qqdnZ2d@casema.nl:
quote:
> For a more mundane use of emulators, think of old game-consoles or
> arcade machines; these things didn't have IBM PC's in them, so you can't
> run their software directly. However there are emulators that can read
> the software, translate whatever the game wants to do to what the
> underlying system can do, and voila.
Within the embedded system industry, we call an emulator implemented in
software a "simulator". The term "emulator" is used to refer to hardware,
and is lately more a misnomer, as it's more a probe (like a sophisticated
logic analyzer) than something which emulates.
(But MAME's still cool.)
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