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The "Why" section in the Readme doesn't quite explain the need for this. Can someone shed light on how and why this is useful Thanks

• kelvin0 10y ago
  When you have to ask "Why", you usually are not part of 'target audience' for this type of thing :) All jokes aside,this is a pretty big achievement for a given programmer to complete and denotes quite a bit of technical chops on many level (hardware, systems, OS, and web dev).
  • mankash666 10y ago
    Ah ok - "if you're not the target customer, no need to explain the product to you". Great mantra to live life by! You don't happen to work in marketing, do you?
    • jlappi 10y ago
      >customer You see, that's where you're way off base. Not everything shown here is going to be a 'product'; people often like to learn by doing, and showing what they create.
    • khedoros 10y ago
      Why is everything a "product"? Why does everything have to be marketed? Why does there have to be a need for something, for it to be built and to be noteworthy? This looks like a cool personal project, built by the author as a learning experience, with a convenient API to manipulate the machine that's being simulated. If that doesn't tell you enough about why it exists, then I don't know what to tell you besides "nothing to see here".
    • omegaham 10y ago
      Most of this kind of stuff is done for intellectual gratification. It's playing; the tools are just more sophisticated, and it takes more brainpower than usual.
• ghshephard 10y ago
  I thought they were pretty explicit: "I decided to work on this as a fun project and learn something about the x86 architecture." That seems to be more than enough reason to me.