I'm snipping this to just a bit near the beginning that I think may be of some interest to folks in here: ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: The Embedded Muse 127 Date: Tuesday 21 March 2006 04:42 pm From: Jack Ganssle <jack at ganssle.com> To: embedded at ganssle.com The Embedded Muse --------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded Muse 127 Copyright 2006 TGG March 21, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------- You may redistribute this newsletter for noncommercial purposes. For commercial use contact info at ganssle.com. EDITOR: Jack Ganssle, jack at ganssle.com CONTENTS: - Editor's Notes - Test Driven Development - Yet More on Tools - Jobs! - Joke for the Week - About The Embedded Muse Editor's Notes -------------- <...> This Computerworld story (http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,108568,00 .html?source=x10 ) is an interview with J. Presper Eckert about the birth of Eniac. Fascinating stuff for computer history buffs. The article's author is a professor at the University of the Virgin Islands. now that's a job I want! <...> -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin