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From: swelter@mus.ch (Sascha Welter)
Subject: Re: CPU recommendations from an Ada perspective?
Date: 1999/11/08
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Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:

> I know of at least
> one engine controller that was done for the navy using PC-based hardware
> and GE Fanuc I/O control blocks. On the ship shock and vibration was our
> main concern, so we found a moderately rugged touchscreen PC with PCMICA
> support, and replaced its hard drive with a solid-state PCMCIA hard
> drive. With a bit of hoofwork by your EE/ME folks, you might be able to
> come up with some PC-based solutions that will work in your environment.
> 
> But the neat thing is that it ran NT (insert laughter here). Yeah, yeah,
> I know; but that meant we had a relatively large range of tools and
> vendors to choose from for our software development environment.


Please tell me that it wasn't the thing that did a divison-by-zero error
and they had to haul the ship to the port to get it fixed... it could
not believe this to happen if it was programmed in Ada.

Regards,

Sascha