iPhone 3G ..

[Jay Vaughan]

> From: Jay Vaughan <seclorum at mac.com>
>> Well, I just got handed a new project at work, involving the iPhone  
>> 3G.
> I thought you were playing with model trains at work? :)
>

I'm in the base platform group, I make firmware and platform-specific  
stuff. Turns out, some folks who want to jailbreak their iPhones and  
put some tools on it think our group are the best ones to do it ..   
but anyway, I got out of it.  I don't really want to have to fight  
Apple so our guys can have their apps onboard; I told 'em to buy  
Freerunners if they want it in their pockets .. but I do have to admit  
that an afternoon of discovery on the state of iPhone music-making has  
piqued my interest in the platform .. just a little bit ..

> So does this have anything to do with ECTS/ERTMS? Because I thought  
> that this works on GSM technology and bespoke handsets. Or is the  
> NDA spectre lurking here?


ECTS/ERTMS are references more to the applications layer, whereas I  
work on base platform; the product I work on (a full-blown life safety- 
rated operating system) is standardized as the base platform for all  
other apps and targets.  Our machines support tons of cool stuff ..  
everything from shunting and signalling, to booking, operator console,  
onboard analysis and online testing, automation, even ticketing ..  
pretty fun, also, to be going through the stepping-A/B/C evolution  
with Intel and their new chip, lots of low-level hacking for me.

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Jay Vaughan