A Rudzki wrote:

> True, Except that if it takes you $10,000 to get from point A to point
> Y, I'll take the design (and code) disassemble it and get from point A
> to point Z for only MY $1000.

  I suspect, as others have said previously, that sometimes, perhaps
often, an emulated product rather than a "reverse-engineered" one, may
benefit from *not* having the original source or object code to look
at.  I.e., you do not suffer the temptation to make the same mistakes as
the original.
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  Cheers,
        Paul B.