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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?





  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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