Duraid Madina <duraid@octopus.com.au> writes: > I guess I was being a bit subtle. > > I'm well aware there are things you can do with a simulator that you > can't do with hardware. Like test your code against what's supposed to > happen, not what actually happens. ;) > > My point wasn't that software simulators are useless, but that > software simulators _should_ be useless **4 years** (!!) after the > public availability of hardware. Why is that? There are numerous reasons for using simulators to develop software, especially low-level software (OS, drivers, firmware etc.) You get things like full system visibility, non-intrusive debugging, deterministic repeatability, fault injection, and more. -- David Kågedal, VirtutechReceived on Sat Apr 12 08:50:56 2003
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