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Upgrades
- Upgrades prolong product life
- Insert more powerful computer into old product
- Enhance and "maintain" software
- Add additional sensors for more sophisticated control &
diagnosis
- Potential problems with compatibility
- Will all versions of other components work with newly upgraded
component?
- Will legacy software work with new hardware?
- Can software really be ported to a new instruction
set?
- Different timing of different CPU implementations
- Different hardware/compiler/assembler/linker bugs