> and clunky in-circuit-emulators… I wrote software for in-circuit emulators from Applied Microsystems back in the late 80s and early 90s. I was fortunate to b

> and clunky in-circuit-emulators… I wrote software for in-circuit emulators from Applied Microsystems back in the late 80s and early 90s. I was fortunate to be able to work with some really talented people. Our high-end ICEs were expensive, maybe $40K at the time. I can think of at least one company that bought 120 of them from us, although most of our customers only bought a few. A lot of NRE went into building such systems. And yes, I think they probably were clunky yet capable of some amazing things when it came to debugging embedded systems.