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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address?
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:41:15 +0100
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:31:38 -0500, Hyman Rosen wrote:

> The cell phone in my pocket is a miracle.
> It performs wonders beyond the wildest science-fictional
> fantasies dreamed of a few decades ago.

Come on, your cell phone has the computational power of dozen mainframes of
a few decades ago. 90% of its resources are just wasted. 70% of features
are useless and used by nobody.

P.S. I am not in phone's development, but I know pretty well the embedded
software used in automotive, metering devices (e.g. the things you have to
blow into when you get caught by police officers. Are they already allowed
as an evidence in the court? Good luck then! (:-)). I bet that no ECU works
as specified. Usually these problems are attributed to / covered by the
hardware. But service people would privately say you that you may change
the ECU as frequently as you wish, the problems will persist.

Low quality of office applications and computer games became legendary.

SCADA, ERP etc systems are probably the worst of all.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de