Path: utzoo!utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-rsc!jim
From: jim@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Jim Somerville)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Simulator vs Emulator
Message-ID: <602@bnr-rsc.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 21:42:23 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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Please excuse me if this is the wrong newsgroup to be posting this.

I would simply like to know when to use the term "simulator" or
"simulation" instead of "emulator" or "emulation".  Should the correct
usage be, for example, "architecture simulator" or "architecture emulator"?
"Instruction set simulator" or "instruction set emulator"?  Can these terms
be completely interchanged?

My feelings are that emulation implies hardware support, as in "In Circuit
Emulator", whereas simulation implies pure software.  Can anyone set me
straight on this?
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