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Sounds a lot like ABE systems. (defense company with their letters purposely scrambled)…and their death spiral… Yeah, good lucky winning those government contracts and being able to execute…Oh wait…Never mind…Oops, I didn’t say that 🙂
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Close.. and it is a defense company, though not ‘ABE’ systems. I did work for ‘ABE’ systems prevously, before they became ‘ABE’ and were of their original name.

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BTW: I was totally totally shocked to learn UCSD teaches very little embedded and real-time O.S and very little practical use on concurrency and multi-threading…Everything is Java. Totally unfrickinunbelievable…I remember taking O/S at USC and we had to write a stupid toy O/S (nachos, or something like that)…
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I’ve noticed the same thing. A loss of the fundamentals. Too many students were having problems with it, and the powers that be wanted to be ‘relevant’ to the ‘new technology’. Oddly, they were doing this as the EE & CS departments were ‘impacted’ because of the number of students. They should have kept the fundamentals in as a way to weed out candidates.

I remember doing the compiler class @ UCSD without any additional ‘libraries’ that are given to you. In fact, I have heard that many of the projects are just ‘incorporating’ existing libraries to accomplish the projects vs writing the solution ‘cold’.

grepper:
How did you come up with your handle. It is an odd one, which happens to be the name of a simple utility I wrote a long-long time ago.