"Real" emulation...

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Mon Jan 8 10:33:04 2001

At 08:52 AM 1/8/2001 -0800, Sellam wrote:
>That being said, if you're such a purist and want to get the real
>experience, perhaps an option could be added to the emulator that can be
>enabled or disabled by the user that triggers failures now and then.
>Taking it one step further, perhaps you can have a quotient that
>determines how often the failures are. Something between 0.0 (no
>failures) and 1 (dead).

If such a system could be built (and I'm sure it could) it would be a
fabulous training device for people. Imagine doing this same sort of thing
on a PC (which fails more than my PDP-11 in my experience!) you could help
thousands of people.

--Chuck
Received on Mon Jan 08 2001 - 10:33:04 GMT