Friday, February 23, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
Future Embedded
You'll probably receive this issue just as 1991 kicks in. Perhaps even now all commitment to New Year's resolutions has flown out the window (or should I say GUI?), except the inevitable early morning gasp on the 1st of "aaarrgg... no more New Year's parties!". I for one hope to have had (with Embedded's three month ahead deadline, getting a column together is like writing future history) a prediction party, to be followed up in the year 2000 with a rev 2 shindig, where we see just how far off the mark our visions fell.
Looking backwards, in 1981 who would have dreamed that by now CP/M would be dead, that the PDP-11 would become ancient history, or that we would all have 5 MIP color machines that cost only a few thousand dollars? January is a good time to step back, take a deep breath, and reflect on just where we're headed as an industry.
The embedded software industry was invented (more or less) in the 70s. By the end of the decade we had all of the basic tools needed for small projects, from assemblers and linkers to ICEs and ROM programmers. In the 80s C and Source Level Debuggers became common, probably mostly because of the sudden wide availability of a common development platform (the PC). What can we expect for the 90s?
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