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OS DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR INTERNET APPLIANCES by Scot Hacker
It is said that the dawn of the personal computer represented the first major computing revolution, and the appearance of the Web marked the second.
Executive Update
The Myth of Homogeneity
Technical homogeneity produces a compelling pull on IT. Perhaps it harkens back to our mainframe roots -- the big mainframe, green-screen terminals, and COBOL programs were the essence of homogeneity. When viewed through contemporary glasses, that time seems to epitomize simplicity. There were no questions about which platform to use: COBOL was a given. The crux of the matter was to write programs.
POWER TOOLS: MINI OPERATING SYSTEMS IN THE DATA CENTER by Lance W. Russell and Alberto Munoz
The increased interest in mini operating systems at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (HPL) corresponds, not surprisingly, with the rise of the new enterprise Internet data center (IDC).
Executive Update
Schedule Reduction by Rational Means
In working with software organizations around the world, perhaps the most common complaint I hear is, "Our software projects take too long!" What they want to know is, "How can we reduce the elapsed time of software development?"; upon further questioning, it quickly becomes clear that what they really want is to reduce the elapsed time of software development projects without:
LINEO'S EMBEDDED SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENT by Ed Yourdon
As embedded systems become ever more powerful and inexpensive, the range of applications for which they might be suited grows ever larger.
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MICROSOFT'S WINDOWS CE: WHY IT CAN COMPETE by Ed Yourdon
As we've noted elsewhere in this issue of the Cutter IT Journal, embedded systems and wireless information devices (WIDs) are likely to become the next major wave of technology.
It is said that the dawn of the personal computer represented the first major computing revolution, and the appearance of the Web marked the second. Now we're standing on the brink of the third great computing revolution -- the advent of the "Internet appliance" (IA).