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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f948976d12c7ee33 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-20 19:22:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn12feed!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!sccrnsc02.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Mark A. Biggar" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Boeing and Dreamliner References: <20030619221951073-0500@library.airnews.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.235.88.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: sccrnsc02 1056162041 12.235.88.213 (Sat, 21 Jun 2003 02:20:41 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 02:20:41 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 02:20:41 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39513 Date: 2003-06-21T02:20:41+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article <20030619221951073-0500@library.airnews.net>, Robert Love writes: > >>Now that Boeing has announced the 7E7 I'll be curious to see how much >>they Ada they use. I'm sure that the "internet aboard" will all be COTS. > > > That is a reasonable use for non-Ada COTS. You would not expect them to > use titanium for the magazine racks. Perfectly reasonable. If I was part of the 7E7 design team I would insist that the "internet aboard" system be a complete isolated stand alone system that shared at most power supply with the rest of the plane. And if I were part of the FAA certification team I wouldn't approve it otherwise. So a COTS solution to "internet aboard" makes sense. I'd still want to use Ada for the avionics. -- Mark@biggar.org