Re: What does 'embedded' really mean?
- From: Jonathan Kirwan <jkirwan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:22:11 GMT
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:12:16 +0000, Chris Hills <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
In article <1162224902.406744.133200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mike
Noone <nleahcim@xxxxxxxxx> writes
I was recently asked what 'embedded' really means, and I did not have a
good answer. Can anybody try to define it? I just am not sure as to a
concrete definition - I only can give examples of what is and what
isn't embedded.
An embedded system is a computer no one buys. It's is a computer
system that is an integral part of something else.
Any good?
I like it, except that it addresses itself to an "embedded system" but
not directly to the single word, 'embedded,' itself and as an
adjective that might also be applied to software as in "embedded
software" or "embedded development" and so on. But I think you are
right on track.
Let me provide a short example out of something I read in a book
called "Plain Talk," written back in the late 1940's (I think.)
Question: "How do you tell the difference between a wholesale egg and
a retail egg?"
Answer: "A retail egg is bought by someone who buys it to eat it."
So perhaps the meaning as an adjective is just that embedded things
are actually meant to be _embedded_ as a fixed part of something. For
example, in the case of embedded software it means that the software
is intended as a fixture in the device -- that it should not actually
be removed by the end user. In the case of embedded software
development, it means the development of such embedded software. Etc.
Jon
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