Who is WE? is a good question, Bill. "We" have a lot of different requirements. The point of the question is to fish for answers like yours, of couse. >I haven't needed any tools other than those provided by my employer. It is becoming apparent that "my employer" and "me" will soon be one and the same, so my employer is developing a shopping list. What is a source control system and why do I need one? -- Lawrence Lile P.S. Just missed a Hakko desolder system on ebay. It went too cheap! I was Out Sniped! William Chops Westfield Sent by: pic microcontroller discussion list 06/23/2004 08:22 PM Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU cc: Subject: Re: [EE:] Typical Embedded work requirments On Jun 23, 2004, at 11:48 AM, llile@SALTONUSA.COM wrote: > What does it take to actually do what we do? > Who is "we"? I've spent 15+ years doing "embedded systems" development, and for most of that time I haven't needed any tools other than those provided by my employer. For a while, that wasn't much more than 'access to a system that ran the appropriate C compiler, and a test system to run the resulting code on, and an appropriate connection between them.' That used to be a Heath-19 terminal accessing a 68k based unix workstation, and an ethernet. But then, I was primarily an embedded SOFTWARE engineer; someone else was designing the HW, and they had somewhat different requirements... No one mentioned internet access yet, or a source control utility. BillW -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu