when someone at MIT recollected the requirements that NASA kept hidden regarding the computer that MIT was to designe for the apollo program, they said that the

when someone at MIT recollected the requirements that NASA kept hidden regarding the computer that MIT was to designe for the apollo program, they said that their team would have dismissed it as technologically impossible at the time (the early 60s), and that it was the contractual obligation that forced them to come up with the ideas and technologies which were required for the flight.[1] I don't disagree with you entirely, it is simpler to emulate an environment. [1] http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch2-2.html http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch2-2.html