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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,873e3ac877e7b6b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-17 00:23:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!tdsnet-transit!newspeer.tds.net!news-out1.nntp.be!propagator2-sterling!news-in-sterling.nuthinbutnews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030723 Thunderbird/0.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Nuclear Reactors & Blackout References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 07:23:13 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.147.239 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny01.gnilink.net 1061104993 162.83.147.239 (Sun, 17 Aug 2003 03:23:13 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 03:23:13 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41621 Date: 2003-08-17T07:23:13+00:00 List-Id: Robert C. Leif wrote: > that the board can apply the full 10 volts to the servo-amplifier at > startup. This results in the rotor reaching top speed, ca. 3,000 rpm, with a > 9 kilogram rotor with no simple means to slowly decelerate it. This is > enough to make one a true believer in Ada! So the board can do this because the software has a coding error? The program is doing something illegal that allows this to happen?