Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ?

Date	2011-05-16 22:46 +0200
From	Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no">
Newsgroups	comp.arch
Subject	Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ?
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Andy "Krazy" Glew wrote:
> On 5/15/2011 3:59 PM, Michael S wrote:
>
>>
>> That's the thing I don't understand. The theory say that, other things
>> being equal, home-grown solution wins. And here home-grown solution
>> lost despite being much bigger, rather than equal. Sort of NIH
>> syndrome in reverse..
>
> I call it the NNIH syndrome - the not-not-invented-here syndrome. Intel
> has it in spades. It is usually easier to persuade Intel management that
> something from outside the company is better than something home grown.

BT, DT:

Me and a coworker once promised we could write a working prototype of a 
distributed realtime system in a month, and we'd need 3 months for the 
3-way redundant version.

The directors decided that it was safer to outsource it. :-(

We begged our boss, who relented and gave us three days:

During that time we wrote the entire system on two PCs: One PC had the 
production code with nice fancy displays showing a realtime situation 
plot, with drilldown, while the other PC emulated all the system hw that 
we didn't have at the time, including programmable error rates for every 
component and a tracker which showed any differences this resulted in 
between the real situation and what the production display was currently 
showing. I.e. any offset due to component errors.

We showed off this, and the directors decided that since Mobile Oil had 
told them that a calendar year was the minimum time to implement such a 
solution (independent of the number of hw/sw people), they would still 
get a nice written contract with a British Joint Venture company who 
could deliver both hw and sw.

Terje
PS. A year later I had to spend 7 weeks in NE England trying to teach 
them realtime programming, before I realized that they couldn't make the 
hardware work either. :-(
-- 
- <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"

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What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? whygee <yg@yg.yg> - 2011-05-08 23:01 +0200
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? kym@kymhorsell.com - 2011-05-09 04:07 +0000
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? whygee <yg@yg.yg> - 2011-05-09 08:45 +0200
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? "robertwessel2@yahoo.com" <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-08 23:58 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? whygee <yg@yg.yg> - 2011-05-09 09:02 +0200
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2011-05-09 09:43 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com> - 2011-05-09 09:38 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? "robertwessel2@yahoo.com" <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-09 11:14 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2011-05-09 14:51 -0400
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? torbenm@diku.dk (Torben Ægidius Mogensen) - 2011-05-09 16:31 +0200
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? whygee <yg@yg.yg> - 2011-05-09 18:16 +0200
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? mac <acolvin@efunct.com> - 2011-05-09 17:27 +0000
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? whygee <yg@yg.yg> - 2011-05-09 19:38 +0200
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) - 2011-05-09 20:23 -0500
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? whygee <yg@yg.yg> - 2011-05-10 03:04 +0200
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-05-11 14:23 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? whygee <yg@yg.yg> - 2011-05-12 02:45 +0200
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-05-12 20:41 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2011-05-14 23:24 -0400
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-05-15 09:18 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-15 10:00 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-05-15 12:06 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-05-15 12:12 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-15 16:16 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? nmm1@cam.ac.uk - 2011-05-15 20:58 +0100
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-15 15:59 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? nmm1@cam.ac.uk - 2011-05-16 08:58 +0100
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-05-16 07:43 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"> - 2011-05-16 22:46 +0200
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? timcaffrey@aol.com (Tim McCaffrey) - 2011-05-19 16:13 +0000
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2011-05-15 20:33 -0400
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? whygee <yg@yg.yg> - 2011-05-11 05:53 +0200
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? whygee <yg@yg.yg> - 2011-05-11 07:10 +0200
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2011-07-04 09:39 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2011-07-04 10:23 -0700

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