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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...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 6; pp. 52 - 59
Main Author: PHILLIPS, GEORGE
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jun2010
Subjects:
Emulation software
Microprogramming
Digital computer simulation
TRS-80 computers
Java programming language
Object-oriented programming languages
Computer programming
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