* Re: Ada and the airbus disaster
@ 1989-03-29 0:35 Alex Blakemore
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From: Alex Blakemore @ 1989-03-29 0:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
> I am hearing a couple of versions of the role which the Ada programming
> language might or might not have played in the air-bus disaster at the
> Paris Air Show about a year or so ago. I would appreciate hearing from
> anyone who actually knows anything about this topic.
> Ted Holden
> HTE
I am forwarding this reply from John Knight at SPC -- AB
Ada has not been used in any AIRBUS system that I know of that is in
production. It has been used to develop a shadow AIRBUS flight control
system to evaluate Ada. The system turned out very slow so they used a
faster CPU to ensure meeting deadlines (actually, 4 times faster).
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