How significant of a technology are you thinking of?
For example, I would guess that most video game emulators came about when computers were much faster than the games they were emulating—if it weren’t the case that fast computers were cheaper than the emulated consoles emulators wouldn’t be very popular.
Further, I can guarantee you that computers easily have more power than video game consoles, so any emulator produced of the latest generation of console was written when computers had far more power than necessary.
So: Does a new emulator count? It’s a specific technology that is developed in a fast environment.
Does an old emulator count? Emulators in general aren’t new technology at all.
Does an instant messenger count? Predecessors existed in times when text content was a big deal, but I would be mildly surprised to hear that the original AIM (or whatever the first instant messenger program was) was created at a time when text-over-the-internet was a big stress on computers.
My experience contradicts that. The video game emulators I know of were written at about the time that the fastest of desktop cpus was just fast enough to run some of the games usually near realtime, with plenty of others still too slow to be playable. Emulated games may not become popular until you can run them reliably with plenty of leeway, but people start trying as soon as it’s barely feasible. Though it is also true that the barely feasible point is when the computers are a bunch faster than the consoles, since you lose an order of magnitude or so in emulation overhead.
How significant of a technology are you thinking of?
For example, I would guess that most video game emulators came about when computers were much faster than the games they were emulating—if it weren’t the case that fast computers were cheaper than the emulated consoles emulators wouldn’t be very popular. Further, I can guarantee you that computers easily have more power than video game consoles, so any emulator produced of the latest generation of console was written when computers had far more power than necessary.
So: Does a new emulator count? It’s a specific technology that is developed in a fast environment. Does an old emulator count? Emulators in general aren’t new technology at all. Does an instant messenger count? Predecessors existed in times when text content was a big deal, but I would be mildly surprised to hear that the original AIM (or whatever the first instant messenger program was) was created at a time when text-over-the-internet was a big stress on computers.
My experience contradicts that. The video game emulators I know of were written at about the time that the fastest of desktop cpus was just fast enough to run some of the games usually near realtime, with plenty of others still too slow to be playable. Emulated games may not become popular until you can run them reliably with plenty of leeway, but people start trying as soon as it’s barely feasible. Though it is also true that the barely feasible point is when the computers are a bunch faster than the consoles, since you lose an order of magnitude or so in emulation overhead.