| Hellmark 2005-09-27, 7:38 pm |
| ScratchMonkey's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through his
body were:
quote:
> Frank van Schie <frankNOSPAM@email.it> wrote in
> news:49udnW7ZiogEl6TenZ2dnUVZ8qqdnZ2d@casema.nl:
> 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.)
Well, for those who deal with software versions, emulation is for ones
that properly recreates the behavior of the hardware, where as simulators
mimic the general actions (basically trying to get the end result without
following the same steps, so not as much processing power is needed)
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