Re: Improving Ada's image

[Wes Groleau <groleau+news@freeshell.org>]

Marius Amado Alves wrote:

>> http://www.lockheedmartin.com/wms/findPage.do?dsp=fec&ci=11378&rsbci=13210&fti=0&ti=0&sc=400 
>>
>> http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~kang/dissertation.ps
> 
> Very interesting. The dissertation is very useful for real time database 
> design. Is there a connection between the dissertation and 
> Lockheed-Martin's product?

I had assumed so when it popped up in a search for the name Eaglespeed.
But I skimmed through it after posting and didn't spot the reference.
RTDB was developed on the AN/BSY-2 project when it was discovered that
Ingres was not even close to being capable of meeting the timing
requirements.  FIRM was the sequel (no pun intended) done in Ada 95
for an Air Force contract.  I do not know when the name was changed
to EagleSpeed nor how far it has evolved since FIRM.

Binghamton (where the dissertation was done) is close enough to Syracuse
that folks working at LMCO on FIRM could have gone there at the same time.

-- 
Wes Groleau
   "Grant me the serenity to accept those I cannot change;
    the courage to change the one I can;
    and the wisdom to know it's me."
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