From: wmilam@ford.com (William P. Milam)
Subject: Re: Ada and Automotive Industry
Date: 1996/11/15
Date: 1996-11-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56ifpb$201@fmsrlw.srl.ford.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: EACHUS.96Nov13200915@spectre.mitre.org
In article <EACHUS.96Nov13200915@spectre.mitre.org>, eachus@spectre.mitre.org
says...
>
> But again from experience, I had to configure the machine, or
>preformance was piggish. No one little thing, but following all the
>advice that I put in the installation manual usually resulted in about
>a 100x speedup. The systems were shipped to run on minumum hardware,
>in particular minimum memory. Going to a (big for then) 2 Meg
>configuration and increasing (lots of) buffer sizes in the OS
>eliminated a lot of thrashing, mostly by the OS.
>--
>
How many automotive system have 1 meg of memory? Zero!
We measure memory in Kilobytes......cost of memory (heck silicon)
is too much of an issue when a single company comsumes in the millions
per year...
BTW it's kilobytes of total memory...ram and rom...
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1996-11-01 0:00 Ada and Automotive Industry ETHoierman
1996-11-05 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1996-11-06 0:00 ` James Thiele
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-11-11 0:00 ` Ken Tindell
1996-11-11 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-11-11 0:00 ` Philip Brashear
1996-11-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-11-11 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-11 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-11-13 0:00 ` Ken Tindell
1996-11-13 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-11-14 0:00 ` Jack Patteeuw
1996-11-16 0:00 ` David Taylor
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Art Schwarz
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Ken Tindell
1996-11-24 0:00 ` "Paul E. Bennett"
1996-11-18 0:00 ` David Taylor
1996-11-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Ken Tindell
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-11-23 0:00 ` James Thiele
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-05 0:00 ` Michael Warner
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-11-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Ken Tindell
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Chris Hills
1996-12-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-24 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Ken Tindell
1996-11-26 0:00 ` John Dammeyer
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
[not found] ` <Pine.GSO.3.95.961120154239.3 <Pine.GSO.3.95.961201100430.21598A-100000@nunic.nu.edu>
1996-12-01 0:00 ` James Thiele
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-12-03 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-12-03 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-12-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1996-11-14 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-11-15 0:00 ` William P. Milam [this message]
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-11-08 0:00 ` James Thiele
1996-11-08 0:00 ` nasser
1996-11-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Dirk Dickmanns
1996-11-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-11-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-11 0:00 ` James Thiele
1996-11-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-12 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-13 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-14 0:00 ` William P. Milam
1996-11-19 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-16 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-16 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-11 0:00 ` Ken Tindell
1996-11-11 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-11-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <847341612snz@transcontech.co.uk>
1996-11-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-12 0:00 ` "Paul E. Bennett"
1996-11-15 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-11-15 0:00 ` William P. Milam
1996-11-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Ken Tindell
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-19 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-12-05 0:00 ` Michael Warner
1996-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-15 0:00 ` John Howard
1996-11-21 0:00 ` James Weaver
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Chris Hills
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-11-23 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1996-11-24 0:00 ` Otto Lind
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-11-28 0:00 ` Eyal Ben-Avraham
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Chris Hills
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Chris Hills
1996-12-03 0:00 ` Andy Ashworth
1996-12-03 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-12-03 0:00 ` George Romanski
1996-12-05 0:00 ` Ken Tindell
1996-12-03 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-12-03 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1996-12-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-12-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1996-12-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-14 0:00 ` Chris Hills
1996-12-19 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-12-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-12-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-19 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-11-11 0:00 James Thiele
1996-11-12 0:00 James Thiele
1996-11-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-15 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-13 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-11-12 0:00 James Thiele
1996-11-13 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-11-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-24 0:00 Ingemar Persson
1996-11-25 0:00 Ada and automotive industry W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-11-27 0:00 Ada and Automotive Industry W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
[not found] <1996Nov30.130532.522@decus.org.nz>
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
[not found] <1996Dec2.221233.523@decus.org.nz>
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-12-05 0:00 Franco Mazzanti
1996-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-12-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1996-12-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-17 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-12-18 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-12-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-12-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-12-18 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-12-19 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-12-20 0:00 ` Philip Brashear
1996-12-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-23 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-12-18 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-12-18 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-12-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-12-10 0:00 Franco Mazzanti
1996-12-11 0:00 Franco Mazzanti
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-13 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
[not found] <1996Dec11.220521.525@decus.org.nz>
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-12-13 0:00 Franco Mazzanti
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