From: jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter)
Subject: Re: Patriot problem, more info available?
Date: 7 Jun 91 08:04:45 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.080445.12661@netcom.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9106070033.AA16103@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
>I am particularly interested in the connection
>between four days of operation and a software failure.
>Based on no more than the newspaper article I wonder
>if a dynamic memory got fragmented and slow with time.
That's certainly how it reads. I've been told by people
involved with the project that the system is programmed in a
mixture of assembly, FORTRAN, and JOVIAL--but from the way it
failed it sounds more like LISP!
>there may be a
>lesson-learned here for real-time Ada software.
Indeed there is--avoid access types as much as possible.
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1991-06-07 0:30 Patriot problem, more info available? SAHARBAUGH
1991-06-07 8:04 ` Jim Showalter [this message]
1991-06-07 16:09 ` Orville R. Weyrich
1991-06-10 1:46 ` Kenneth Ng
1991-06-07 23:10 ` Bill Kinnersley
1991-06-08 4:14 ` Jim Showalter
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1991-07-01 18:57 Esther Lumsdon
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