From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 4 Nov 92 06:15:45 GMT From: seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net (Michael Feldman) Subject: Re: Who uses Ada?? Message-ID: <1992Nov4.061545.8992@seas.gwu.edu> List-Id: In article <1992Nov3.191829.22803@csusac.csus.edu> cs13517@athena.ecs.csus.edu writes: > > I am a DOD civillian engineer who is obviously affected by the >Ada mandate. I was having a conversation with a co-worker and we came >up with a question. Who (companies, and individuals, and schools) use >Ada AND, are not associated with the US federal government or government >contracting. In other words, who uses Ada because they want to, not >because they were told to? > This list hasn't been updated for a while, but it's a start. Mike Feldman (list follows sig) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman co-chair, SIGAda Education Committee Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science School of Engineering and Applied Science The George Washington University Washington, DC 20052 USA (202) 994-5253 (voice) (202) 994-5296 (fax) mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) "Americans wants the fruits of patience -- and they want them now." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Some Non-Governmental Ada Applications 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 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 Boeing: almost all new software for 777 project USA Boneck Printing: job costing system, Janus/Ada USA Coulter: medical electronics, including hematology analysis 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 using GPS) 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. Australia CSA: ground stations for an L-Band car-to-satellite telephone system in Australia. Multiple sites, many processors linked in real-time; Sun SPARC, Sun SPARCengine; 100,000 SLOC; SunAda, VADSWorks. 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.