From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: christos gentsis <christos_gentsis@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: Matthew Geier <matthew@arts.usyd.edu.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Y2K-like bug to hit Linux computers! - Info of the day
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 17:19:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200505142119.j4ELJRAV032512@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 May 2005 21:27:11 BST." <42865F1F.8000204@yahoo.co.uk>
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On Sat, 14 May 2005 21:27:11 BST, christos gentsis said:
> Matthew Geier wrote:
>
> >
> > Embeded computing is much bigger than that. I've got a 20 year old
> > embedded processor controlled microwave oven. (It still knows how to
> > cook better than I do :-).
> >
> why anyone that refer to an embedded device mean a microwave????
Microwaves. Alarm clocks. Stereos. DVD players. Tivo units. Your car, most
likely, unless it's *so* ancient it predates fuel injection (my '87 Tercel
didn't have any once the radio died. My '94 Camry has at least 4 that I know
of).
Almost anything that has a display more intelligent than wiring one end of an
LED to ground, the other to +5V (with a 5K resistor in there), and using it as
a "power on" indicator. This includes essentially all multi-segment LED and all
LCD displays.
We *could* itemize all these things, or just generalize to "anything that's
at least as smart as a microwave probably has an embedded CPU".
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-14 12:46 Y2K-like bug to hit Linux computers! - Info of the day Matthew Geier
2005-05-14 20:27 ` christos gentsis
2005-05-14 21:19 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2005-05-15 1:04 ` Gene Heskett
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2005-05-14 13:41 ` Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>
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2005-05-13 11:43 Srinivas G.
2005-05-13 11:48 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-05-13 12:17 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-13 16:07 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-13 12:22 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-05-13 12:27 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-13 12:43 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-13 20:36 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-05-13 20:47 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-05-13 21:07 ` Chris Friesen
2005-05-13 21:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-05-13 23:10 ` David Lang
2005-05-13 21:24 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-14 9:09 ` christos gentsis
2005-05-14 9:46 ` jnf
2005-05-14 10:37 ` christos gentsis
2005-05-14 10:20 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-05-15 20:25 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-13 14:37 ` DervishD
2005-05-13 15:19 ` randy_dunlap
2005-05-13 15:24 ` DervishD
2005-05-13 16:11 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-15 16:20 ` Helge Hafting
2005-05-16 2:09 ` Paul Jakma
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