Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Adam On the contrary, I have been following Boeing keenly for 50 years. For the past 25 years I have been working for one of Boeings major subcontractors, and our marketing people closely followed all of Boeings activities. I am also in direct contact with a number of their pre-design people. Clearly you have not read what I wrote. Jerry Adam Bridge wrote: > On 2003-06-25 jerryleh@pacbell.net (Jerry Lehrer) thoughtfully wrote: > > >Sound almost like Boeing announcing a plane that they will, > >may, might be, won't be building. > > > >Jerry > > Clearly you haven't been following Boeing over the past couple of years > - they have been doing exactly that with the 747x and the Sonic Cruiser. > > Just showing they have a clear view of a product and how it will be > engineered is useful. > > I would hope they would be able to meet a better spec - but then I have > no/zip/zero idea of the lead time between the software needed to service > the chip and the attendant support hardware. > > But Austin and Brian could probably tell us: can you design the > softare/hardware system in an appropriate manner so the chip becomes a > RELATIVELY easy thing to change? > > I have a bad feeling that the whole thing is in concert and that > surrounding hardware/software is co-mingled in some devious way that > will make it difficult to change the chip without massive changes in > other places. > > It would be nice if the sensor platform itself were engineered to be > replaceable so that when new/better chips were introduced that they > could be upgraded but I don't think there's a defined buss structure for > the chips. > > Now I have to deal with my solar hot-water system melt-down. Sigh. > > Later > > Adam > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html