Re: NASA Phoenix?

[Chris Moore <zmower@ntlworld.com>]

Michael Feldman wrote:
> Any Ada in that project? If you work on, or close to, that project and 
> can say Yes or No, please reply here, or privately to mfeldman@gwu.edu.
> 
> Mike Feldman

Here's the reply I got :

"The question you submitted to the Phoenix Mars Mission ask the team has 
been answered. Your question was:

As a computer scientist I'd like to know what processors, operating 
system and languages are use on the lander.

The answer to your question is:

Thanks for your interest in the mission and sorry for the delay in our 
response. We use a RAD6000 microprocessor, a version of the PowerPC chip 
once used on many Macintosh computers but enhanced to endure the Martian 
environment. It operates at three speeds, 5 million, 10 million or 20 
million clock cycles per second. We have more than 74 megabytes of 
dynamic random access memory, plus flash memory. The language used is C, 
also C++ and Java for the testbed engineering.

We appreciate your interest in the Phoenix Mars Mission!"

So no Ada which surprises me a little.  The OS is VxWorks as mentioned 
at http://blogs.windriver.com/deliman/2008/05/did-you-watch-i.html

Chris M Moore