The SIMH web pages seems to use the terms interchangably... http://simh.trailing-edge.com/
As does this page:- http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/emulation.html Although I would tend to agree with Al, to my mind Emulation mimics almost exactly all the compenents of a system, whereas simulation mimics some subset. So SIMH emulates, and data input will be treated identicaaly on real hardware. SPICE is a circuit simulator, it omits some aspects of the circuit, Flight Simulator doesn't actually fly any where... Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Al Kossow > Sent: 19 September 2011 22:40 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Simh] ARM simulator? > > > On 9/19/11 2:12 PM, dott.Piergiorgio d' Errico wrote: > > > well, I admit to not knowing the defining, but I can humbly > ask you to point to me to the relevant documents > > first occurrence of "emulator" in Datamation was Dec 1964, > the term was used in the same way on System 360 > > "RCA says it will implement NPL for its new series of > computers when the language has been defined and the > 70/45 will have a read-only memory with elementary > operations to handle programs written for its own 301, > 3301 and 501, as well as IBM's 1401. What's it called > when you emulate an Emulator?" > > in CACM, Dec 1965 > > "The Spectra 70/45 Emulator for the RCA 301" > > and > http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/1401_emulator/GC27-6940-4_360 _1401emul.pdf 1401/1440/1460 Emulator Programs "emulator" does not appear earlier than this is the periodicals that I checked. -- "simulator", on the other hand was the widely used term for a program that simulated the operation of another system, and goes back to the earliest computers. I would be interested in seeing a reference to industry-recognized redefinition of the term "emulator" to define a system simulator. _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
