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From: cross@augusta.math.psu.edu (Dan Cross)
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Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of
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In article <stzo9h78kx.fsf@aonix.fr>,
Reivilo Snuved  <odevuns@iname.JUNK.com> wrote:
>Bzzt. The target machine for Ariane-5 was (and still is) a 68k-series.
>Operand Error referred to a FPU exception.

Really?  It hardly seems like a commodity microprocessor would be
reliable enough for something that demanding.  Don't get me wrong, the
MC68k series is very, very reliable, but is there really a model which
is designed for the additional stress and interference characteristics
of use on board a space craft?  I'm asking; I'd be very interested if
there were!

	- Dan C.