From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,eac8d804189288a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-11 05:40:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!news-out.worldnet.att.net.MISMATCH!wn3feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.71!wnfilter1!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C67C694.4090200@worldnet.att.net> From: Jim Rogers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Silicon Valley techies suit up Army with sleeker gear References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 13:27:00 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.86.33.180 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1013434020 12.86.33.180 (Mon, 11 Feb 2002 13:27:00 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 13:27:00 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19858 Date: 2002-02-11T13:27:00+00:00 List-Id: David Starner wrote: > On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 01:11:09 GMT, Ken Garlington wrote: > >>wireless card to allow Land Warrior computers to send data. The most >>critical technical step: They wrote the software in common programming >>language used by most software engineers, rather than using old government >>programming language, as Raytheon had.... Soldiers say the newest Land >>Warrior is the best version yet... >> > > The soliders complain about it being overweight and clunky, and the most > critical step has to do with the programming language? On the other > hand, I don't recall hearing about a Windows CE targetted Ada compiler And why was Windows CE the only choice for operating systems? We all know there are other real time operating systems on the market. We also know that many of those other real time operating systems support Ada. Are you implying that the system worked because Windows CE was chosen over other real time OS's? I find that very hard to believe. I still wonder how well this little gem integrates into the overall battlefield communication system using only off the shelf components and a "quickie" software development. I expect it would take more than three months to develop the parser for the Army's variable message protocol. I also wonder just how close to acceptance testing this gem is. It is one thing to claim success as a system supplier. It is another thing to pass DoD acceptance testing. I suspect the customer has severe requirements concerning reliability, maintainability, and weight. These requirements normally exceed the performance of off the shelf hardware systems. Jim Rogers