10 Aug
2012
10 Aug
'12
12:40 p.m.
Simulators also help do something with software
that running
artifacts can't do. [...]
Yes...this whole discussion of whether simulators are better than the
real thing strikes me as rather silly. Simulators and original
hardware are different. For some purposes, one is better; for others,
the other. I'm glad we have both, and would be sorry to lose either.
Not entirely unlike hands-on versus just-look museum exhibits.
I am trying to think of soemthing that you can do with a 'jsut look'
exhibit that you cannot also do if that exhibit is run from time to time.
OK, I will agree it is better to dismantle a machine when it's not
running, but no museum (quite rightly) allows visitors to pull the
exhibits apart :-).
-tony