Simplicity Betrayed.
The article discusses computer emulating systems, providing examples of how even a relatively primitive system such as the TRS-80 can prove to have unexpected subtleties and complications which make an exact simulation difficult to achieve. A comparison is drawn to the Java Virtual Machine, which is...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 6; pp. 52 - 59 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Jun2010
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