Voyager Emulators Self Test

[rprosperi]

Just to be clear, when a self-test on an emulator returns an error result, it does NOT mean that the emulator is not running properly, it only means that the original firmware code that is checking the emulated h/w is not having expected results, most likely because the emulated h/w behaves slightly differently from the original, true h/w (for example, the RAM on the PC you use is probably much faster than the expected behavior). This does not mean the emulator isn't working properly, it only means that the emulated h/w does not behave as the diagnostic code expects. There is typically no reason to be concerned about self-test failures on an emulator.

For example even HP's own HP-15C LE device does not produce proper results when using the original self-test diagnostics, for the same reason: the emulated h/w is slightly different from what the self-test code expects. But no problem, the 15C LE still works as expected.