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Re: Testing job applicants

In article <37D2BDDC.3534@excite.com>,
	TheWombat <Fuzzy_Wombat@excite.com> writes:
[...]
> This is why the people in this group are into embedded systems - it
> retains that olde-worlde charm of 16K/2K of ROM/RAM space (if you're
> lucky), 4MHz clocks and _smart_ coding.  Much more fun than just picking
> out the appropriate class from a Microsoft library and glueing it in.

True.

There will *always* be 8kB machines with 4MHz clocks and three I/O lines.
They'll just get smaller. Eventually we'll be programming nanomachines,
but they'll still be there. 

It works like this: a simple embedded system costs X currency units. A
technological advance is made. For that same X c.u., you can now get a
much more sophisticated system. *But*, you can now produce the same system
you had before for X/2 c.u.

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