Re: The IDS, the EDS and the DBMS

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:03:42 +0200
Message-ID: <4142cd82$0$25965$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

mAsterdam wrote:

> erk wrote:

>> mAsterdam wrote:
>>> Capsules are one type of module.
>> How do you define capsule?

>
> Tough one. I'll improvise.
> I must have been thinking of a modularityscale -
> designation/qualification: a "capsule" as a rather
> closed type of module. Examples: hardware modules:
> an IC is more on the capsule side than a circuitboard because there it
> is so much easier to alter it's behaviour by replacing or bypassing

I meant to say that it is much *harder* with an IC, of course. That's what I get for improvising.

> components. Software modules: An executable binary is a capsule, an
> interpreted language sourcefile is not (but could still very well be a
> module).
Received on Sat Sep 11 2004 - 05:03:42 CDT