Re: Survey: Do you run on II hardware or an emulator?

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"Mike Westerfield" <MikeW50@aol.com> wrote:

>dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff) wrote:
>
>>Why would I want to run an emulator when I have these perfectly good Apple
>>]['s sitting here?
>
>Hey, my PowerBook is a great portable GS

Perhaps, but an emulator will never have the "hands on" feel of the
real thing.  The smell of solder, the joy of hardware, the feeling of
excitement when a new peripheral is installed or the CPU speed
tweaked up.  You can't do that on a simulation.

Similarly, I'll bet I can simulate a pretty spiffy Windows 95/98 unit
on your G3 PowerMac.  Heck, if it is the fastest G3, I'd bet it'll
even rival my IBM 6x86 system while running Windows 95.  But
I would never get the excitement of feeling a new AMD 3D chip
running at 400Mhz, swapping that chip in, and suddenly boosting
the capabilities of the unit.  Sure, I could probably swap in a new
G3 in the future, but again, it is not the same from the simulated
Windows unit's point of view.

A simulator (ie. an emulator) is a souless shadow of the real thing.

I feel the same way about Mac emulators on the PC.  Fusion and
Gemulator may simulate Macs well and fast, but they are not Macs.