Great Schrodenger's cat!

[XMEN Ashaman DTM]

Yep. That's why I look at embedded systems that way.<br><br>But I've been told that the more complex machines (like a Pentium 4) are just too complex to model as a state-machine. So they aren't, and that leads people to not think of them as state-machines.<br> <p></p><i></i>

[XMEN Gambit]

Ah. I can understand that they'd be difficult to model that way.<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Arthur C. Clarke.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>