Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Dec 1996 18:23:13 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: "legal" advice required |
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On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Clifford T. Matthews wrote:
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> > > It's not sufficient to detail all that one is able to determine. You > must detail all that is required, and as a functional specification. > If the bits that are being loaded are indeed tables for some finite > state machine, then you can't specify the bits, but you can describe > the machine and detail what transitions need to be made and why. > > --Cliff > ctm@ardi.com > It may be sufficient, in a functional specification, to treat an object as a "black-box". For instance, I may wish to communicate with a terminal using RS-232C. I may not be familiar with the standard. I could, therefore, detail the true/false pulses with their time intervals necessary to send a particular character, without any knowledge whatsover of what the character was nor the baud-rate. Such a specification might detail the procedure necessary to "reset the terminal", without any idea that I had actually sent a ^Z to the terminal.
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