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just wondering, what is an "ICE"?

• mshroyer 4y ago
  The abbreviation I know is "in-circuit emulator", but wouldn't know if that's what they were referring to
  • 082349872349872 4y ago
    this. (but of course I almost never powered it up without thinking of Gibson's "black ice"; cf Burning Chrome) incidentally, Burning Chrome's description of how Automatic Jack lost his arm, over Kyiv, was coincidentally prescient...
  • numpad0 4y ago
    And they usually looks and works like a Borg tentacles and assimilated production hardware, despite the "emulator" nomenclature, apparently by tradition from very early days of microprocessors when ICEs actually were alternate implementations for chips it emulates
• akkto 4y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-circuit_emulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-circuit_emulation