Re: What's the Toughest Branch in Electronics?

On Sep 10, 9:28 pm, D from BC <myrealaddr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:15:10 -0700, John Larkin



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On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:07:36 GMT, Gary Tait <classic...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

D from BC <myrealaddr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:8b64e3lql2djr5v2b5fcr76c50r412p2mc@xxxxxxx:

Now it's not easy to make a DSP chip in a garage but I think all the
bulk of the thinking is in the software/firmware.

Exactly. The actual electronics are usually pretty fundamental. The work is
done in software.

Question is...can software be considered electronics too?

Nowadays, yes.

D from BC

It's just a definition, but I'd suggest that if the work doesn't
involve working with electricity (which programming doesn't) than it's
not "electronics." Programmers don't have to understand anything about
electrons or fields or things like that, and often don't.

John

If it needs power...it's electronic (or electrical) :)

I still have the steam powered numarical I was helping Babbage with.
It isn't electrical.

It was too bad we got our funding yanked but that brwon haired girl he
was fooling around with turned out to be the earl of something's kid.


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