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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 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 May 2005 21:27:11 BST."
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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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