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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f8311a3a7edd715 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-13 06:40:06 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!router1.news.adelphia.net!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.skycache.com!Cidera!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Ted Dennison Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Using "delay until" in real-time Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:29:18 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <91813m$j8f$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <915jl7$jt5$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <9162gf$1or$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.195.186.125 X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Dec 13 14:29:18 2000 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001108 Netscape6/6.0 X-Http-Proxy: 1.1 x59.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 38.195.186.125 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDtedennison Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3058 Date: 2000-12-13T14:29:18+00:00 List-Id: In article , "Ken Garlington" wrote: > "Ted Dennison" wrote in message > : Unfortunately we have some algorithms that we have to match results with > : that *have* to run at 60Hz. Its Legacy Fortran code, written and > : controlled by developers at working for our customer who have little > : patience with this newfangled "Ada" stuff. > > I'm not sure what the language has to do with it... this rule has been Nothing really. But it would have *everything* to do with it in their minds... > around since I first started in the field - back when we used BDX930 > assembly. I'm not sure why these folks like to use 60, but they do it for all their sims as near as I can tell. -- T.E.D. http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/