Did Rick ever post anything about the NIST embedded stuff

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This is about the paper below:

http://www.nist.gov/y2k/embeddedarticle.htm

I have been waiting to see if Rick would post something that talked more about the paper that was published by these guys:

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS AND THE YEAR 2000 PROBLEM

Gary E. Fisher

Computer Scientist - National Institute of Standards and Technology - Gaithersburg, Maryland

and

Michael Cherry - President - CenturyCorp - Century City, California

On Dec. 2nd Rick said he might say some more about it - but I haven't seen anything more. Perhaps I just missed it - could someone point me to any more info? Or Rick, if you could find the time -- I'm wondering mainly about the credibility/reputation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). If I read the paper correctly, I think they are saying that we really can't have a high degree of confidence until and unless there has been comprehensive end-to-end testing, and if I remember correctly, we in the USA (and the rest of the world for that matter), decided a long time ago - NOT to do that in either electricity or telecommunications -- I suppose because of the cost and complexity of trying to involve many organizations at the same time, (not to mention losing money if the system were to be unstable because of the testing).

Thanks

-- Anonymous, December 16, 1999

Answers

Dennis,

Ah, where does the time go? Anyway, to answer your question directly, I haven't posted anything yet because I simply haven't had the time to do an indepth analysis. I did a quick perusal of the document a week or so back, and found little fault in NIST's findings. I just wish they would have published the document two years ago, rather than two weeks ago.

Oh, and certainly, NIST is a credible organization.

-- Anonymous, December 16, 1999


Rick,

If you are going to dissect this, you can really improve the benefit to the masses if you incorporate and integrate two other excellent papers. One is the article by Dale Way of the IEEE. The second was written by an engineer from Dallas semiconductor, forget his name - but it is located somewhere on the dallas semiconductor web site. I also referenced it in a recent response to a thread by AJ, but I'm too tired to go lookin.

-- Anonymous, December 16, 1999


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