From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,87e8cfe2f62264db X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-07 08:08:59 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!nntpserver.pppl.gov!princeton!gw1.att.com!csn!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!PSAVAX.PWFL.COM!CONDIC Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 11:08:59 EST Sender: Ada programming language From: CONDIC@PSAVAX.PWFL.COM Subject: Re: Ada Run-time for embedded systems Date: 1995-02-07T11:08:59-05:00 List-Id: From: Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93 Subject: Re: Ada Run-time for embedded systems Original_To: PROFS%"SMTP@PWAGPDB" Original_cc: CONDIC "Theodore E. Dennison" Writes: > >l107353@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com (Garlington KE) wrote: >> >> Actually, there's a lot of COTS being used in embedded systems these days; >> it's just that "embedded" means more than those weaselly little processors >> used in avionics like ICNIA (or like I still use today :). For example, >> C3I workstations are often called "embedded" systems since they are part of >> a larger system. Many of these environments use extensive COTS databases, >> display managers, etc. >> >Gimme a break! > >Show me someone who refers to a workstation setup as an "embedded >system" and I'll show you someone who is trying to pad his resume'. > I have to agree. While one might easily call a workstation based application "realtime" it's hard to imagine it as being "embedded". If you define "embedded" losely enough, you could call a payroll application on an IBM mainframe a "realtime", "embedded" system. After all, it's "embedded" in a factory system which semi-automatically takes raw materials in at one end of the building and squirts out widgets from the other end. And it happens in "realtime" because paydays happen on the 1st and 15th. And they're "hard" deadlines in that missing them could result in a riot which would destroy the widget producing platform... I don't know how y'all would like to define what an "embedded" system is, but I'd say that if it has a screen, QWERTY keyboard and a mouse, we're _probably_ not talking about one. Pax, Marin Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer ATT: 407.796.8997 M/S 731-93 Technet: 796.8997 Pratt & Whitney, GESP Internet: CONDICMA@PWFL.COM P.O. Box 109600 Internet: MDCONDIC@AOL.COM West Palm Beach, FL 33410-9600 =============================================================================== "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." -- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957. ===============================================================================