[geeks] Daily Dose of Unix

[Mike Meredith]

On Saturday 01 February 2003 9:31 am, Dave McGuire wrote:
>    Eh.  Emulators.  *spit*  A fun diversion once in a while...but
> it's not real hardware.

Real hardware isn't always possible. Sometimes it doesn't exist. Or in 
some cases would be too expensive to keep running. For instance :-

http://www.computer50.org/mark1/ip-mm1.proto.html

As a software orientated person, it seems just as important to be able 
to keep the software alive and runnable in some form. Real hardware 
would be nice; re-constructed hardware almost as nice; and an emulator 
is realistic.