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,INVALID_DATE, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f43e6,2fba5a8c5be7a631 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 115aec,a08fb1edcbd73f50 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,a08fb1edcbd73f50 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-10 16:03:36 PST Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.realtime,comp.lang.ada Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!master.ceat.okstate.edu!gcouger From: gcouger@master.ceat.okstate.edu (COUGER GORDON) Subject: Re: Safety-Critical Market -Size? Message-ID: Sender: news@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: master.ceat.okstate.edu Reply-To: Gordon Couger Organization: CEAT at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater References: <34ku24$pch@gazette.medtronic.COM> <34n5rg$1sm@news.ED.RAY.COM> <34q3qv$66p@rational.rational.com> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 21:13:59 GMT Xref: nntp.gmd.de comp.software-eng:17561 comp.realtime:4794 comp.lang.ada:14603 Date: 1994-09-10T21:13:59+00:00 List-Id: In article <34q3qv$66p@rational.rational.com>, Bob Kitzberger wrote: >Fred Ross-Perry (fredrp@tif527.ed.ray.com) wrote: >: : Curtis May (curtism@netcom.com) wrote: >: : > Hello All, > >: : > I am interested in information regarding the size of the safety-critical >: : > software market, particulary in the United States (although global >: : > information would be helpful as well). Any relevant information along >: : > with the source of the information would be highly appreciated. The automotive, trucking, farm and industrial equepment are the biggest users of computer cpu's and they all are safety-critical. Most of the code is written by indivugals and I don't know of any software being marketed. It would be a good place for real time kernels but the rest of the software is pretty device specfic. I think. Gordon Gordon Couger senior software specialist Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering. 114 AG Hall Stillwater, OK 74075 gcouger@olesun.agen.okstate.edu 405 744 9763 day 625-2855 evenings