Everything We Owe To Alan Turing, On His 100th Birthday

“All of modern computing is underpinned by this notion. Every piece of software you use is running on layers of simulated computers that are as powerful as the physical hardware they’re running on — and as powerful as each other. A program running on a simulated Turing Machine works exactly the same way as one running on a non-simulated one; simulation has no effect on the complexity of the programs that can be run.”