> Whereas for example an FPGA implementation, that’s in line with my idea of “build your own NeXT”. Even though someone might say, that’s emulation too. And the

> Whereas for example an FPGA implementation, that’s in line with my idea of “build your own NeXT”. Even though someone might say, that’s emulation too. And they’d be correct in a way. But like, do you see what I mean? That would be acceptable, as you built a machine that functioned exactly like the original, running the OS on bare metal - not on unrelated hardware under emulation. That would fit my idea of "building" the machine as well.