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Presents information on the use of emulation in computers to stop software from becoming redundant. How the process works; Backwards compatibility; Sun Microsystem's Java cross-platform language; Interpreter described as the simplest sort of software emulator; Discussion of other methods including...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Economist Vol. 350; no. 8110; pp. 96 - 98
Format:	Article
Published:	Economist Newspaper Limited 3/13/1999
Subjects:	Software compatibility Computer software Java programming language Programming languages
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	Presents information on the use of emulation in computers to stop software from becoming redundant. How the process works; Backwards compatibility; Sun Microsystem's Java cross-platform language; Interpreter described as the simplest sort of software emulator; Discussion of other methods including just-in-time compilers, or JITS.