Re: Boeing Begins Flight Testing F-22 Block 3S Avionics

["Tarver Engineering" <jtarver@tminet.com>]

Ken Garlington <Ken.Garlington@computer.org> wrote in message
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>
> "Tarver Engineering" <jtarver@tminet.com> wrote in message
> news:39074a04_3@news4.newsfeeds.com...
> >
>
> > > Ah, now I see what's been confusing you!
> >
> > I am not in the least confused Ken and in fact it is yourself that has
had
> > to make major modifications to your original statements to maintain any
> kind
> > of credibility.
>
> a) Cite "major modifications"?

You were advertising 4004 with Version 3 software for May and now that might
happen sometime in January.

<snip of desperate and childish insult>

> b) If you're not confused, then I assume the strange claim that there's a
> sudden 5+ month slip in the F-22

The slip is far worse than 5 months Ken.  Lockheed is now sometime into
January to start testing what must be completed before any production F-22
are purchased.

<snip of second childish insult>

> > > The designation "4004" refers to an _airframe_. Block 3S refers to a
> > > _software configuration_.  Although not all software configurations
are
> > > compatible with all airframes, there is not a one-to-one
correspondence.
> >
> > So in fact the software suite fails the first test of Ada
> transportability.
>
> Actually, no. Aircraft 4001-4003 do not have a CIP (Common Integrated
> Processor) installed, nor do they have all of the sensors that are
installed
> in the later aircraft. Ada's good, but no software language can compensate
> for missing hardware. In other words, if you select the "print" function
in
> your favorite software package, and you have no printer, only a crazy
person
> (Q.E.D.) would complain about the software.

Actually nearly any software can do a system generation and run fine with
missing hardware.

> > Why thank you Mr. Garlington for helping those of us at ram understand
> > Software,
>
> You're quite Welcome. I know that some people have difficulty using the
> Internet (e.g., being unable to locate references on the Wall Street
Journal
> website),

Only yourself.

John

<snip of more childish gibberish>

So there you have it folks, on the extreme off chance that nothing else goes
wrong between now and fiscal 2002 we might see a production F-22.  From the
performance of the program thus far this is unlikely.





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