Re: [OT] System Conversion - An Overview

"Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My experience bears out what you say about starting with a smaller system and expanding it incrementally. Obviously, encapsulated
building blocks facilitate this.

I don't agree that you should always start small and scale up. Build a system
modularly, absolutely. But not all designs scale up well. For some applications,
you need to "thing big" from the beginning, or it may not scale up properly. Or,
sometimes you miss opportunities if you "think small" but eventually will
"need big". Designing toward the actual target seems more appropriate to me.
Parhaps I'm just lucky, but I've never designed a system that didn't work as
well or better than the user's expectations.
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Judson McClendon judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (remove zero)
Sun Valley Systems http://sunvaley.com
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."


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