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: 103376,3a4656a5edc0dab4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada used in General Aviation (GA) applications? References: <409F69CB.8020604@noplace.com> <40A218DD.9090903@noplace.com> <40A36368.7050104@noplace.com> <40A8AF7C.5000608@noplace.com> <40A9F260.9080300@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: <40A9F260.9080300@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <7byqc.687$Tn6.111@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 00:50:11 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.32.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1084927811 63.184.32.195 (Tue, 18 May 2004 17:50:11 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 17:50:11 PDT Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:675 Date: 2004-05-19T00:50:11+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > Keep in mind that while we software guys would like to have all sorts of > spiffy hardware to make our jobs easier, that the end product is going > to be some board whos price is driven by the parts count & complexity. > The cost of reproducing a million copies of the software in it are near > zero. The cost of 32 processors * 1m boards is pretty non-trivial. > Sooner or later someone starts saying "Well do we really *need* that > many processors or could the software guys somehow shoehorn it all into > one little inexpensive 8 bit processor?" ;-) Using current-but-one chip technology, it should be possible to put 32 80387+FPU-equivalent processors with memory on one chip pretty cheaply. Ideally the board with these processors would sell for the same price as the board with the 8-bit processor. -- Jeff Carter "Death awaits you all, with nasty, big, pointy teeth!" Monty Python & the Holy Grail 20