Probably the best way to understand hardware is to write a emulator (taniarascia.com)

I posted yesterday on a group that the best way to understand CPU is to write a virtual machine(kind JVM), a mate said that him wants to write a pet project, a emulator for CHIP 8, I think that this is a better way to understand a simplified architecture of computers

Is there a reason this was killed, rather than just retitled?

It looks like an interesting post to me.