From: andrewl@zeta.org.au (Andrew Lees)
Subject: Re: Ada in Australia (was Ada ad in Embedded Systems Programming stinks)
Date: 31 Oct 1994 22:14:23 +1100
Date: 1994-10-31T22:14:23+11:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <392jig$404@godzilla.zeta.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38r871$bdi@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au
wfan1@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (William Fang) writes:
>Brendan WALKER (bjw@f111.iassf.easams.com.au) wrote:
>[...]
>: It is also worth noting that of three Ada projects you mentioned, I know for
>: a fact that at least two of these are in SERIOUS trouble, facing serious
>: architectual/design problems and the resulting cost and schedule slip (like 3+
>: years late!!).
>My brother remember a local computer company that made PDP (is that?)
>clones getting the contract to supply computers for the Submarines.
>He did work experience there and remembers tha machines ranged from
>full-tower boxes to machines bigger than large filing cabinets, that he
>had to climb on top of to get access to some components.
>This was about 10 years ago. I'm not suprised that folks are having
>a hard time getting programs to work well on 10 year old computers.
>I'd be suprised if compiler vendors supported architectures that old.
>- Bill
Different submarines, different project, I believe. (Previous generation).
Andy.
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1994-10-13 10:51 Ada ad in Embedded Systems Programming stinks Bob Wells #402
1994-10-27 5:45 ` Ada in Australia (was Ada ad in Embedded Systems Programming stinks) Brendan WALKER
1994-10-28 16:17 ` William Fang
1994-10-30 20:17 ` AdaWorks
1994-10-31 11:14 ` Andrew Lees [this message]
1994-10-30 1:14 ` Andrew Lees
1994-10-30 2:41 ` Chris Perrott
1994-11-01 9:45 ` Robb Nebbe
1994-11-02 15:35 ` Robert I. Eachus
1994-11-04 21:46 ` Do-While Jones
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1994-10-28 11:55 Bob Wells #402
1994-10-31 10:33 Bob Wells #402
1994-10-31 17:12 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-11-02 14:39 ` David Weller
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