Editor — Readers probably recognize Jonathan Miller as past president of the PC/104 Embedded Consortium, president of Diamond Systems Corporation, and a frequent contributor to our magazine. We excerpted the following text from an article Jonathan submitted for publication. Coincidentally, we recently talked with Bob Burckle on the formation of the SFF-SIG, as shown in the sidebar. Jonathan and Diamond Systems are not (yet) affiliated with the SFF-SIG. But the timing of these events is interesting to us.