From: "Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com>
To: "'Hyman Rosen'" <hyrosen@mail.com>, <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Subject: RE: Nuclear Reactors & Blackout
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:04:49 -0700
Date: 2003-08-17T12:04:49-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.20.1061147141.299.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B3G%a.8095$Cd2.6681@nwrdny01.gnilink.net>
I believe that this would be considered a gross design error. I suspect that
it is software.
Bob Leif
Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
Email rleif@rleif.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Hyman Rosen [mailto:hyrosen@mail.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 12:23 AM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: Nuclear Reactors & Blackout
Robert C. Leif wrote:
> that the board can apply the full 10 volts to the servo-amplifier at
> startup. This results in the rotor reaching top speed, ca. 3,000 rpm, with
a
> 9 kilogram rotor with no simple means to slowly decelerate it. This is
> enough to make one a true believer in Ada!
So the board can do this because the software has a coding error?
The program is doing something illegal that allows this to happen?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-17 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-15 21:59 Nuclear Reactors & Blackout Robert C. Leif
2003-08-16 1:26 ` Alexander Kopilovitch
2003-08-16 5:35 ` John R. Strohm
2003-08-17 1:58 ` Alexander Kopilovitch
2003-08-16 9:20 ` Preben Randhol
2003-08-16 16:21 ` Wes Groleau
2003-08-16 17:10 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-08-16 14:10 ` Dmytry Lavrov
2003-08-16 14:26 ` Ludovic Brenta
2003-08-17 12:21 ` Dmytry Lavrov
2003-08-20 20:45 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-08-16 17:57 ` Robert C. Leif
2003-08-17 7:23 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-08-17 19:04 ` Robert C. Leif [this message]
2003-08-18 14:42 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-08-18 22:36 ` Robert C. Leif
2003-08-22 3:15 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-08-16 15:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-08-17 2:30 ` Alexander Kopilovitch
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2003-08-22 11:02 Lionel.DRAGHI
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