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The "Why" section in the Readme doesn't quite explain the need for this. Can someone shed light on how and why this is useful

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When you have to ask "Why", you usually are not part of 'target audience' for this type of thing :)

All jokes aside,this is a pretty big achievement for a given programmer to complete and denotes quite a bit of technical chops on many level (hardware, systems, OS, and web dev).

Ah ok - "if you're not the target customer, no need to explain the product to you". Great mantra to live life by! You don't happen to work in marketing, do you?

Why is everything a "product"? Why does everything have to be marketed? Why does there have to be a need for something, for it to be built and to be noteworthy?

This looks like a cool personal project, built by the author as a learning experience, with a convenient API to manipulate the machine that's being simulated. If that doesn't tell you enough about why it exists, then I don't know what to tell you besides "nothing to see here".

>customer

You see, that's where you're way off base. Not everything shown here is going to be a 'product'; people often like to learn by doing, and showing what they create.

Most of this kind of stuff is done for intellectual gratification. It's playing; the tools are just more sophisticated, and it takes more brainpower than usual.

I thought they were pretty explicit: "I decided to work on this as a fun project and learn something about the x86 architecture."

That seems to be more than enough reason to me.

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