Most eloquently put - this was the point that I was trying (and failing) to get across in the argument above.jal wrote:That is an incomplete definition. By that definition, a system could emulate itself. The definition should be extended with "not being that system" or the like. Merriam Webster puts it like this:Wave wrote:This is an emulator: "A device, computer program, or system that accepts the same inputs and produces the same outputs as a given system."Which may not be entirely accurate either, but at least got the "different computers" right.Merriam Webster wrote:hardware or software that permits programs written for one computer to be run on another computer
JAL
Cheers,
James