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Assorted Rants Tagged ‘IoT’, page 1:

Bringing Architecture of Operating Systems to XXI Century – Part I. Changes in IT Over Last 50 Years

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Quote: “we’re using operating systems which were designed whopping 40-50 years from now”
Another Quote: “Do not communicate by sharing memory; instead, share memory by communicating.”
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Journaled Flash Storage – Emulating EEPROM over Flash, ACID Transactions, and More. Part II – Existing Implementations by Atmel, SiLabs, TI, STM, and Microchip

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Quote: “Whenever a developer is using something named ‘X Emulation over Y’, she may expect that a faithful emulation exhibits the same properties as original (non-emulated) X.”
Another Quote: “Unfortunately, as discussed in detail above, none of five implementations is a really faithful EEPROM emulation.”
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Journaled Flash Storage – Emulating EEPROM over Flash, ACID Transactions, and More. Part I – Flash vs EEPROM

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Quote: “You cannot erase single byte of Flash, but need to erase the whole page”
Another Quote: “First of all, we want to be sure that whatever-is-already-written to our persistent storage, stays there; this property is known as Durability.”
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Modified Harvard Architecture: Clarifying Confusion

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Abstract: Definition of “Modified Harvard” architecture is confusing and overbroad. Proposed alternatives are “Almost-Harvard” and “Almost-von-Neumann”
Quote: “One thing nobody realised for a while is that the system with the least possible amount of chargebacks is the system which rejects all transactions outright”
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