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Subject: Re: ADA made me hate programming
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On Jul 1, 6:11=A0pm, a...@anon.org wrote:

>  Now, controlling a missile, robot, train (full size
> or model) does not require the internet or any gui. =A0They only require =
an I/O
> port or access to memory mapped cell to communicated to the devices and
> sensors.

That might be true for, say, a wire-guided torpedo but I can see
problems with airborne missiles.

And what makes you think that the missile launch computer won't use IP
to talk to the target tracking sensor computers?