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[Eric Manning]

Steve said:

Today we have an option not enjoyed then.....

         "fix it in software"

I just wonder how may recent projects have been saved by this option?

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A good point, but sometimes it has worked the other way. The Nr 1 
Electronic Switching System was AT&T's first production, software 
controlled telephone switch. The great idea was to be able to add 
features and fix bugs by "just changing software".

Well, a few hundred thousand lines of unrelocatable, hard to 
uinderstand assembly code followed. The next dictum from management 
was " Redesign the hardware if you like, but DO NOT touch the 
[unprintable] software." Software changes were just too difficult, 
and had too many unpredicted consequences, to permit any further 
changes to  the code.

I'm sure that this does NOT apply to our K2, though.


-- 
Eric Manning   VA7DZ VE3DPV
K2 #2561 "Pauline"

If God intended you to use SSB, He wouldn't have given you a fist. Or 
two lungs.