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: 103376,87e8cfe2f62264db X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-10 12:27:33 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!nntpserver.pppl.gov!princeton!rutgers!sgigate.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!butch!cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com!cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com!l107353 From: l107353@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com (Garlington KE) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Run-time for embedded systems Date: 10 Feb 1995 20:27:33 GMT Organization: Lockheed Fort Worth Company Message-ID: <3hgi7l$ib5@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 134.189.143.19 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: 1995-02-10T20:27:33+00:00 List-Id: Robert I. Eachus (eachus@spectre.mitre.org) wrote: : I'd have to go back to the early eighties to get the "official" : definition of embedded computer, but the way I usually think of it is, : if the computer can be used to directly point a weapon, or a radar, or : another type of sensor, it is embedded. I think this might exclude a lot of airborne systems like: HUDs, flight controls, sensor fusion processors, etc... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ken Garlington GarlingtonKE@lfwc.lockheed.com F-22 Computer Resources Lockheed Fort Worth Co. If LFWC or the F-22 program has any opinions, they aren't telling me.