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,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-27 11:46:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: simple CPUs, was Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. References: <9mdjbu$qri$1@nh.pace.co.uk> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: <4Awi7.19571$sa.10111360@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:46:24 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.7.82.199 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 998937984 24.7.82.199 (Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:46:24 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:46:24 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12478 Date: 2001-08-27T18:46:24+00:00 List-Id: > The problem is that there aren't a lot of silicon foundaries willing to > make you a RAD-hard, custom version of their chip (with all the required > testing and certification) when the number of chips you want to buy is > measured in the hundreds. Is this a suitable job for FPGAs or such? How about developing not just an Ada OS, but a CPU to go with it? :)