User: honemastert

written in FORTRAN (no joke here)

On: BudNet Tracks Your Suds

my bro-inlaw works for AB in St. louis. no joke
guess what some of the backend programs that
drive this system are written in?

Yeup.. FORTRAN.. takes inputs and parameters
from across the US, they all go into a huge model
which grinds throughout the week, and
spits out the optimal beer distro.

It's a queing theory geeks wet dream.. a very large
and classic IE problem that they crank through and
solve every week.

I cant recall the hardware that they use to run this
thing on.. I'll have to ask next time I see him.

R.I.P LHX

On: US Army Scraps Comanche Helicopter

Ref: third time was a charm! :-) (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 02, @02:53AM (#7111686) (in AskSlashDot Thread
"How were you fired")

Worked on this program in the late 1980's
embedded software, target sighting system..
m68020 and vme boards.

we went from putting the system on an actual
flying 'bird' to driving it around on the
back of a pickup truck in a KS wheatfield

(as people bailed from the project and PMO
tried to force folks to move to Phil. PA)

1989 time frame. Sure was a good learning
experience.. frustrating too at time.. I recall
working in the lab for a week trying to get a
stupid LED to blink on a front diagnostic
panel!