poking around for opportunities

[roger.levasseur at comcast.net]

The embedded stuff that I've been working on over the last 10 years have CPUs (ARMs) that in terms of compute power, RAM, and storage that outclass PCs and Workstations that I worked on during the 1990s.  It was a big deal when that first 1GB SCSI disk drive became available to put into a workstation.  Now we're swimming in storage with ever larger SDHC storage cards.

At least the need to not write crummy code hasn't changed.

     -roger


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tyson Sawyer" <tyson at j3.org>
To: "Mark Komarinski" <mkomarinski at wayga.org>
Cc: "Greater NH Linux User Group" <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 9:08:25 AM
Subject: Re: poking around for opportunities

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Mark Komarinski <mkomarinski at wayga.org> wrote:
> Embedded is just a fancy way of saying “you don’t have a lot of memory or CPU, so don’t write crummy code” :)


I've seen a good number of systems with plenty of memory and CPU.
However, they don't have a keyboard/monitor and updates or normally a
significant PITA and crashes/visible bugs are unacceptable.  ...so
don't write crummy code. ;-)


-- 
Tyson D Sawyer

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent
of many bad measures.   - Daniel Webster

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