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: 103376,38fc011071df5a27
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-02 06:59:10 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!213.200.246.247!not-for-mail
From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 15:57:51 +0200
Organization: JeLlyFish software
Message-ID: <bbfl7c$9472d$1@ID-175126.news.dfncis.de>
References: <6a90b886.0305262344.1d558079@posting.google.com>
 <VjOAa.16051$8g5.257873@news2.e.nsc.no> <3ED41344.7090105@spam.com>
 <3ED46D81.FF62C34F@0.0> <3ED46E07.4340CABC@0.0>
 <3ED4F3FD.A0EF7079@alfred-hilscher.de> <xIeBa.1017346$3D1.597085@sccrnsc01>
 <bebbba07.0305292326.75f5fbef@posting.google.com> <u4r3co12f.fsf@nasa.gov>
 <mdlpnoN$6E7R@eisner.encompasserve.org>
 <slrnbdm69r.nt.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de>
 <BB011381.2FAE%yaldnifw@blueyonder.co.uk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.200.246.247
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1054562349 9575501 213.200.246.247 (16 [175126])
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38342
Date: 2003-06-02T15:57:51+02:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Bill Findlay wrote:

>BTW The UK Beagle 2 Mars probe is sitting atop a Soyuz rocket at =
Baikonur
>waiting for a launch this evening. It is controlled by an open-source
>(ERC32) computer

What do you mean by that? Aren't you confusing that with the
Leon2-processor from <http://www.gaisler.com>? Or is the ERC32 based
on that design?

>programmed in Ada 95 using an open-source (GNAT) compiler.

Ah, I guess, you mean that:

<http://www.estec.esa.nl/wsmwww/erc32/freesoft.html>

Neat.

>Let's wish it luck, and hope it suffers no unbounded priority inversions=
 (or
>Constraint_Errors 8-) !

Well, good luck then.


Vinzent.

--=20
Parents strongly cautioned  --  this  posting  is  intended for mature
audiences  over  18.  It  may  contain some material that many parents
would not find suitable for children and may include intense violence,
sexual situations, coarse language and suggestive dialogue.