From: Petra Lynn Hofman <petrahof@chicagonet.net>
Subject: Re: Crash-Free Software
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 19:22:02 -0600
Date: 2000-12-13T19:22:02-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A3820BA.A9457E65@chicagonet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3A36AC2F.349D46F2@mindspring.com
I heard a short sound bite from the project leader. His example for
research was "truly plug and play device driver". I am not much
impressed by this statement.
Larry Hazel wrote:
>
> There is a short article in the paper today that NASA and Carnegie Mellon
> University are forming a High Dependability Computing Consortium. Systems to be
> targeted are air trafic control, the space program, health care, banking ...
> Twelve companies will be involved including IBM, Sun, and Microsoft. No mention
> was made about language, but this might be a good place for Ada advocates to
> target their efforts. The first planning meeting is in January.
> --
> Larry Hazel
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2000-12-12 22:52 Crash-Free Software Larry Hazel
2000-12-14 1:22 ` Petra Lynn Hofman [this message]
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2000-12-14 2:50 Beard, Frank
2000-12-14 14:26 ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-15 3:54 ` Petra Lynn Hofman
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