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From: mcculley@alien.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: Embedded Systems Programming
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Date: 10 May 91 15:50:29 GMT
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In article <1252@telesoft.com>, bruceb@telesoft.com (Bruce Bergman @nova) writes...
>In article <19104@csli>, knight@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bob Knight) writes:
>> In article <154140@pyramid> csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl Gutekunst) writes:
>> >
>> >mailed in their questionnaire twice, but haven't heard a peep. Since I've
>> Hear, hear!  I had a paid subscription before they went to controlled distrib-
>> ution, and filled out a card.  Got dropped.  Called their circulation manager,
>> who said, basically, that I qualified.  Got another card.  No response. 
[...]
>> ESJ, are you listening?
>Yep, we're listening, I promise!

Here's a different kind of story:  I filled out the card and mailed it back,
just a matter of weeks ago.  Today the first issue arrived in my mailbox.  Much
quicker than I would've expected, even without the expectation setting from
reading comments in this group.

>On a more personal note, I'd love to hear from anyone out there in this
>newsgroup about how they thing we're doing.  I've been following this group
>since its conception and know that the folks who read and post are as good
>a judge of realtime as anyone, so your opinion is valuable to me.  If there
>is something you'd like to see us cover that we haven't, please speak up.  If
>there's something you think we're overdoing, please say so.  If there's
>something you'd like to contribute, call me!  :-)

I can't really comment yet.  I just got the first issue on my own subscription,
and I've only infrequently browsed the ones in the corporate library in the
past.  I will say that my past impression has been that the quality of material
has been uneven, sometimes it seemed a little thin, but that may represent my
erratic sampling or just the state of the art in the field.  At a quick glance
the issue that showed up today looks much better than some of what I recall
from the past.


- Bruce McCulley
  Digital Equipment Corporation
  Central Software Engineering