[sdiy] a provoking question about time

[Jay Schwichtenberg]

Really wasn't thinking about building the firmware. More about the 
hardware to program the device, but that is a good point.

If you do this in real life you archive all the software used, including 
the OS. You're a fucking idiot if you don't. That was one of the first 
things I was programmed to do when I started doing this type of work. 
Some places I've worked you pull the hard drive and archive it too. Even 
so you still might not have the HW to run all the software on. Hopefully 
at least there will be a compiler, linker and programmer that can build 
and burn the code.

Jay S.

On 6/26/2022 1:53 PM, mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2022, Jay Schwichtenberg via Synth-diy wrote:
>> If you are doing a critical system or secure system you will have to go above
>> and beyond to deal with those issues.
>>
>> Question to ask also is the technology to update the firmware going to exist
>> in 20 years and I'm including USB in that statement?
> If you're serious about designing for a multi-decade lifetime, then you
> release the source code and when necessary someone can port it to whatever
> platform is current in the future.
>