Amar G. Bose on business

September 11th, 2006  ()  software business, software engineering › yodaiken › No Comments

B: Research in this country is going down. Prior to World War II, the United States was rather poor in research; that’s why radar was invented in England and Germany. We learned the value of research in World War II. But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research. [...]

Soft real-time and soft design strategies versus QOS

September 5th, 2006  ()  embedded systems, operating systems, real-time, rtlinux, security+fault-tolerance, software engineering › yodaiken › No Comments

[ see revised version ]
(edited August 18 2007 to add back link and formatting)
“Soft real-time” is a perfect example of the “soft design” I was complaining about in the previous post. There are perfectly good ways of characterizing quality of service assurances. For example, you could say that the average = x and there are [...]