poking around for opportunities

[David Rysdam]

roger.levasseur at comcast.net writes:
> 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.

I've been assuming that "embedded" meant some significant subset of the
following properties:

    1) realtime
    2) re-entrant/parallel/interrupt-driven
    3) specialty hardware
    4) specialty OS (if there's an OS there at all)

Despite my earlier joke and my Arduino/Pi experience, I don't actually
feel comfortable putting "embedded" on my resume. However, now if
someone asks me I can at least be intelligent enough to ask what they
mean by that term. If it's just a regular PC running in a kiosk, that's
completely different than what I was picturing.