Tread the high wire between proven and future technology.

EDN, April, 1989 by Clarke, Michele

Tread the high wire between proven and future technology Computer-system development teams must increasingly strike a balance between the old and the new, building on industry standards, getting the most from existing technology before jumping into the unknown, and recognizing that how well the pieces of a system fit together is at least as important as how well each individual element performs.

"It's easy to say software is the biggest problem, but it's really not," says Drew Davis, a systems manager at workstation and instrument maker Tektronix (Beaverton, OR). "Computer development is now complex enough that continued hardware integration is equally as important as properly including the right software features in any single project." Tektronix is...

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