SV: software virtualization

News.com has "Partnership set to run RISC software on Intel chips" about Transitive which is essentially a software virtualizer. It can be called simulators (software folks like emulator but I'd like to leave it for hw only solutions) but SV (software virtualizer) may be more appropriate for what companies are trying to do. Apple has done this for a while when they transitioned from 68000 processor to PowerPC (and again from PowerPC to x86), as well as tools like (Microsoft's) VirtualPC, are for specific usage.

I believe that SV will have a bigger life in the future as processors get faster and complex and programming them will get even more complex.

[No time for XUL, however: too many distractions and now it's tax time!]