Re: Safety-Critical Market -Size?

[mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)]

In article <CvxMzB.vq@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu>,
COUGER GORDON <gcouger@olesun.okstate.edu> wrote:

>The automotive, trucking, farm and industrial equepment are the biggest
>users of computer cpu's and they all are safety-critical. Most of the code
>is written by indivugals and I don't know of any software being marketed.
>It would be a good place for real time kernels but the rest of the software
>is pretty device specfic. I think.

A year or so ago, someone I know in the Ada community mentioned that he
had been to an embedded systems conference and heard someone mention, 
during a session, that some significant amount of automotive code in
his company had been written in Ada. According to my source, there was
something of a flap over this, and the speaker was nearly fired for letting
the cat out of the bag about his employer's use of Ada.

Can anyone confirm or refute?

Mike Feldman
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