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To: Rob L. who wrote (9570)1/27/1998 11:03:00 AM
From: Gerald L. Kerr  Read Replies (1) of 31646
 
>> I would like to know why more y2k companies are not addressing the embedded systems problem?<<

Rob, the so-called Y2K companies are primarily focused on business systems where already the scope of the problem exceeds the availability of people to fix it.

Embedded systems and their software are essentially disjoint from business systems: Different languages, different people, radically different skill sets. IMO, it's not generally understood that today's industrial processes ride on silicon and software as much as on gears, levers, motors and pistons.

While everyone is aware that microprocessors made the personal computer a reality, those same advances in chip technology spawned a profound revolution in industrial processes...IMO, the real computer revolution.

Moore's law reigns with the same force in today's factory as on today's desktop. One would never know that, however, from reading the popular commentaries on the wonders of the computer "revolution".

Real advances in productivity are measured by how many people are required to produce the millions and millions of widgets which ultimately enter the consumption food-chain...not by how many memos, letters and reports are churned out at headquarters.

The so-called economists and academicians who fail to see the productivity gains from computerization are really clueless.

My opinions only,
Gerry
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