Yet another Doctor problem!

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Tiberius wrote:When the Doctor was being run by a different computer system, why couldn't they be using an emulator? They have emulators to let you run old Atari games on a desktop computer....
Yes, and those work fine. However, to emulate, say, a Playstation 2, you need hardware much more capable than a Playstation 2. Point being, Emulators, by their nature, increase the resources needed to run a program by a LOT. You have Hardware running software to simulate some hardware that can run this other software. If the doctor is so hard to run in the first place, an emulator would probably be an unacceptably computer-intensive task.
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