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Miracles as part of the job... (Score:1)
by Seth Scali on Friday August 20, @05:22AM (#1735729)
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When I worked for a company that was contracted for government work, I was informed that my job was to "make the TAMO Chip work". When I asked what a "TAMO Chip" was, I was surprised by the answer. The engineers had chosen a very cheap, incapable, and badly designed microcontroller to handle a horrendously complex task, and I was to write the firmware. "TAMO" stood for "Then A Miracle Occurs". Fascinating stuff, government contracting...
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