On 3 Aug 2004 at 19:06, Peter J. Alling wrote: > Hell there are already toasters with Microprocessors in them, I'm a > software engineer and I can't > convince myself that a toaster needs a microprocessor.
I guess now consumers expect "functions", our recently purchased toaster has all sorts of crap, none of which I need to use. I guess it has a small uController to drive it all as I expect that discrete logic would be way too expensive to implement these days. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
