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From: hoodt@postoffice.manassas.ibm.com (Thomas Hood 913-4501)
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Subject: Re: Safety-Critical Market -Size?
Date: 12 Sep 1994 18:29:28 GMT
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In article <34vg1i$e2v@felix.seas.gwu.edu>, mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes:
|> 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.

Well I got reamed for indicating the potential use of Ada 9X on SBIS here
not too long ago (which I hereby deny any knowledge of ;-}, and we are
supposed to be an Ada shop...

|> 
|> Can anyone confirm or refute?
|> 
|> Mike Feldman
|> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|> Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
|> The George Washington University -  Washington, DC 20052 USA
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-- 

Thomas Hood
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-- Ada grunt since 1985
-- Member Team Ada since 1994
-- Member Team Human since 1965
--
-- My opinions are not those of my employers, and if they were I'd probably
-- reject them out of hand and form new ones.