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To: Mike Winn who wrote (8124)12/31/1997 11:54:00 AM
From: Norman Stone  Read Replies (1) of 31646
 
Mike, a few comments on your "in-depth" analysis:

<...embedded systems for load dispatch or remote switchyard inside an electric utility that perform certain function at a predetermined time schedule...are rare and account for may be less than 5% of all embedded systems.>

Is 5% insignificant?

<...TPRO needs to find some free space inside the ROM or EPROM to insert the new code. In assembly language, sometime programmers use absolute addressing, so TPRO better be careful in moving the code around.>

This is not a TPRO role. As you yourself noted: "all potential Y2K issues are marked, counted and assigned complexity factors that allows for the automatic evaluation of the repair effort."

<...So for God sake, TPRO will do a textual search of the code. Typically in the old day, the code in embedded systems was written in assembly language.>

Wrong again. As you also noted: "Search Y2kOne allows the user to select the types of search required for the specific software that was used to produce the suspected runtime applications." They are focusing on code-generating code, not the burnt-in code itself. This may reduce the number of uses for the Search Y2KOne process, but as a self-touted expert, you should at least get your diagnostic levels straight!

etc., etc. Your simplistic analysis smacks of someone with a simplistic agenda. Granted, there are serious issues and limitations with embedded systems analysis and repair, but that is called the real world. You've had your say. Come back when you can tell us something we don't already know.
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