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- From: mab@dst17.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 17:55:41 GMT
- Organization: Loral Western Development Labs
- Message-ID: <4gfmat$rrm@wdl1.wdl.loral.com>
- References: <JSA.96Feb19193423@organon.com> <312992F6.588D@lfwc.lockheed.com> <4gd3ui$6fi@moon.src.honeywell.com>
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- In article <4gd3ui$6fi@moon.src.honeywell.com> graba@htc.honeywell.com (Lee Graba) writes:
- >In article <312992F6.588D@lfwc.lockheed.com>,
- > Ken Garlington <GarlingtonKE@lfwc.lockheed.com> writes:
- >>Jon S Anthony wrote:
- >> 1. Until relatively recently, the F-16 flight control computer didn't have any
- >> software in it. It was an analog computer.
- >
- >Actually, the F-16A had a hybrid flight control computer. The primary flight
- >control functions were performed by an analog computer, but some flight control
- >gains were scheduled with respect to flight condition by a digital computer and
- >fed to the analog computer. However, setting gains should not cause the above-
- >described phenomenon.
- >
- >If such a thing did occur, it would probably be due to the Navset, which is
- >usually a separate digital computer whose responsibility is to take
- >measurements and then compute positions and attitudes, and associated rates.
- >A software error here might cause a problem, if say, it was telling the flight
- >control computer that it was flying straight and level, and suddenly told it
- >that it was really upside down. The flight control computer would then try
- >to right the plane, since it doesn't know good information from bad.
- >
- >I have heard the above story, as well, but don't know if it is true.
-
- I believe that this is listed in the Risks list that appears the ACM SIGSEM.
-
- The way I heard it, was that this never happen in an actual plane but was a
- bug in a early version of the autopilot simulation system.
-
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- Mark Biggar
- mab@wdl.loral.com
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