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F-22 Avionics Require Inflight Reboot
An anonymous reader writes "The Atlanta Journal & Constitution is fronting a lengthy piece on the USAF's new F-22 and its upcoming shootout with the existing fleet of F-15's & 16's. One line in the article really jumped out at me: 'When avionics problems crop up now, pilots must restart the entire system as if rebooting a personal computer.' I did some googling, and this is about as much as I could find: The hardware backbone for the system is the Hughes Common Integrated Processor, which, in turn, appears to be built around the Intel i960 CPU. I couldn't find a name for the operating system, but it appears to be written in about one and a half million lines of Ada code; more on the Ada hardware integration and Ada i960 compilers is here. Any Slashdotters working on this project? If so, why do you need the inflight reboot? PS: Gamers will be interested to learn that nVidia's Quadro2 Go GPU and Wind River's VxWorks Operating System are melded in the F-22's Multi-Function Display."
That's what happens when you use ADA. If it was in Scheme we'd have no problem.
Openoffice 1.0.1 was released a few days ago and it didn't make the headlines. However, development releases of Linux do. Strange, eh?
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Maybe they should have gone with something more tried and true, like *nix, rather than writing their own custom code.
No offense, but... eat a dick.
*nix is not the solution to everything, no matter how much you may think this is the case.
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