* Updated List of Non-governmental Ada projects, formatted better
@ 1991-09-06 22:45 Michael Feldman
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Some Non-Governmental Ada Applications
September 1991
sources: Commercial Ada Users Working Group (CAUWG),
AdaStrategies, Ada Anthology, published reports,
vendor newsletters, etc.,
summarized by
Michael B. Feldman
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
202-994-5253
mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu
(on sabbatical at University of Washington, 1991-92)
Here is a list of non-governmental Ada projects of which I am
aware. Readers are invited to correct or add entries
and send them to me. The CAUWG chair, Ben Brosgol, can be
reached at brosgol@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu or (617) 270-0030; Ralph
Crafts, the editor of Ada Strategies, a commercial Ada-
oriented newsletter, and Ada Anthology, a summary of
newsletter articles, can be reached at (304) 725-6542.
USA Boeing: 747-400 subsystem components of cockpit
displays, on-board maintenance systems, secondary
flight controls
USA Boneck Printing: job costing system, 40,000 lines, Janus/Ada
USA Coulter: medical electronics, apparently including pacemakers.
USA Design Aids: commercial frame-by-frame videotape
editing system, 11,000 lines, Janus/Ada
USA Dimensional Media Systems: Doorway, hypertext
"information manager," MS-DOS, Meridian
USA Dowell-Schlumberger: oil exploration simulation
software, 20,000 lines, DEC
USA General Electric/Weirton Steel: hot steel rolling
mill, >600,000 lines, multiple MicroVax-en, DEC Ada
USA Genesis Software, Inc.: complete bill paying system,
250,000 lines, Wang VS, Alsys; ported easily to VAX
USA HP: hardware CAD system for internal use in chip development
USA LDS Hospital: medical decision support system,
40,000 lines, DOS, Alsys (for NASA, but appears to
be commercial-type application)
USA MAN Truck and Bus Company: multi-state payroll
system, Janus/Ada (1982!)
USA Motorola: cellular phone switch testing system,
>100,000 lines, Alsys and TeleSoft.
USA PC-based programmer for embedded medical products.
USA Reuters: transaction processing for Chicago
Mercantile Exchange, >250,000 lines, interfaces to
commercial DBMS
USA Rockwell: Fokker F100 Multi-Function Display System,
33,000 lines, Irvine Compilers
USA Rockwell: Advanced Railroad Electronic System (real-
time tracking and communications with trains)
USA Rollins Leasing (national leader in truck leasing
and vehicle management): integrated fuel management
system, Janus/Ada.
USA Wells-Fargo Investment Advisors (WFNIA): real-time
investment database system, 50,000 lines, DEC/VAX.
USA Xerox: digital systems division commitment to use
Ada for embedded copier software.
Chile Empresa Nacional de Aeronautica (ENAER): real-time
avionics system, Data General/TeleSoft.
Finland Nokia Information Systems: online banking systems,
2,000,000 lines, uses Ada as its standard
programming language.
France CMG: turnkey signal processing, industrial automation.
France Euristic Systems: expert system to manage continuous
data acquisition, ApolloDomain network, Alsys.
France GEC Alsthom: fully-committed to Ada for railroad
subsystems including French high-speed train (TGV)
network and Channel Tunnel.
France SEMA Group: software to control nuclear power plant.
France Strategies: CADWIN, PC-based CAD/CAM product,
300,000 lines, Alsys.
France Thomson-CSF: Air Traffic Control systems in
Copenhagen, Kenya, Pakistan, simulators in
Switzerland, Ireland, more ATC systems coming.
300,000 lines, DG/MV10000
France TOTAL (oil company): computer-assisted extraction of
oil products, bare 68020, 300,000 lines, Alsys.
Germany dSpace: tools to control fast systems such as hard
disks, vehicle suspensions, robots, Alsys.
Holland Royal Dutch Post and Telecom: PC-based system for
control and monitoring of public telecommunication
service, 20,000 lines, Alsys.
Japan Nippon Telephone and Telegraph: videotex
communication system, mobile communication system,
satellite communication system, database management
system; all commercially available; >2,000,000 lines.
Spain Teice Control, SA: control system for 40 buildings
in industrial area of Madrid Airport (A/C, power
supply, fire: detection, etc.)
Sweden ESAB: robotic welding stations for use in flexible
manufacturing systems, TeleSoft, Vax and 680x0
Sweden Volvo: materials handling system (robotic parts
carts), TeleSoft.
Sweden Color display element of hospital building control
and monitoring system: 1600 I/O channels, 200
dynamic color displays, lots of tasking, Meridian.
Sweden Swedish Telecom: telephone switch controller (PABX), VAX.
UK Avantek: Access Mac (lets MS DOS disk drives read,
write, format Macintosh disks), 16,000 lines, 1 man-year, Janus/Ada.
UK CORAL: DACMAN, simulation and data monitoring system
for auto engines, IBM PC, 80,000 lines of code, Alsys, Meridian.
UK GeoMatrix: PC demographics research system, 60,000 lines, Alsys.
UK Orbitel Mobile Communications: cellular phone base station, Alsys.
UK Process Plant and Chemicals: chemical process
control systems, >20,000 lines, PC compatibles, Alsys.
UK Univ. of Southampton, modeling of deep: sea
ecosystem, IBM 3090, 2000 lines, Alsys.
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