Re: Ada / Boeing 777

[Stuart Palin <stuart.palin@gecm.com>]

ian@rsd.bel.alcatel.be (Ian Ward) wrote:

[snip]

>Does anybody know what a nuisance disconnect is?
>I think we should be told.
>

Having not read the article I do not know how it was being used in this 
context, but generally in the aviation industry a nuisance disconnect is 
where a safety mechanism (which usually disconnects a failing sub-system) 
is triggered unnecessarily (and is hence a nuisance).

Perhaps an example might be a Web Server that abandons trying to get a 
page because the connection times out - which might usually indicate that 
the connection has failed.  The problem is that the Net is so slow that 
you get time-outs when the system is busy - a nuisance disconnect.

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Stuart Palin
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