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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107f24,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid107f24,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-23 11:17:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.functional From: Ted Dennison References: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <87n15lxzzv.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3B672322.B5EA1B66@home.com> <4a885870.0108112341.7ce02ac0@posting.google.com> <3B834E5D.B0D26AB1@adaworks.com> <9lvsic$bet9s$1@ID-9852.news.dfncis.de> <0sDnZRVkz5qL@eisner.encompasserve.org> <3b83847d.1117251944@news.worldonline.nl> <3B83F498.E0F6C582@timesys.com> <7aTg7.10919$2u.78544@www.newsranger.com> <3B842DEA.E01CA1BE@timesys.com> <5M7h7.11864$2u.82854@www.newsranger.com> <3B85294F.BB780B7F@timesys.com> Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:17:06 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 18:17:06 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12353 comp.lang.c:76486 comp.lang.c++:85234 comp.lang.functional:7663 Date: 2001-08-23T18:17:06+00:00 List-Id: In article <3B85294F.BB780B7F@timesys.com>, Adam Fineman says... > >Ted Dennison wrote: >> later, I believe), you would have been confronted with an engine controller >> using Unix (HP/UX to be exact). > >Sounds like a horribly bad idea to me. I don't have any particular >complaints about HP/UX as a general-purpose operating system, but it is >_not_ a real time OS and should not be used to run the engines of a >warship. Well, I had a longstanding debate with a lot of those folks about whether it was really "real-time" or not. Its certianly not "hard" real-time. Since the system doesn't make any decisions w/o an operator, who desginates his decision via a GUI action, the performance tolerances are rather loose by my standards. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com