Matt Chapman <matthewc@cse.unsw.edu.au> writes: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 09:58:08AM +1000, Duraid Madina wrote: >> >> I put it to you that software is easier to develop on hardware. Nothing >> unique to IA64, indeed. > > We still use simulators despite the availability of hardware. Operating > system software is often easier to debug on a simulator. Exactly. There are a lot of things that you can do with a simulator that you can't do with hardware. Developing software before hardware is available is just one of them. (plug mode on) That's why we sell simulators for most major current CPU architectures. Including IA64. -- David Kågedal, Virtutech http://www.simics.com/Received on Fri Apr 11 00:51:55 2003
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