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- From: pattis@cs.washington.edu (Richard Pattis)
- Subject: IBM & Air Traffic Control
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.002523.27592@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Summary: Anyone know more?
- Keywords: Big Screwup
- Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 00:25:23 GMT
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- In today's NYT business section, there was an article about the government
- threatening to cancel a $3.8 billion contract with IBM to overhaul the
- air traffic control system. It says
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- "Because of a software foul-up, the contract with the FAA has already
- suffered an 18 month delay...The problems involve testing and integrating
- software in what is called the initial sector suite system..."
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- This seems like a very large and embarasing screwup.
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- Anyone know more about the project. I thought the air traffic control stuff was
- being done "mostly" in Ada; if not, anyone know what language was used. Even
- better, anyone know what is "really" behind the delay.
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- Rich Pattis
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- Richard E. Pattis "Programming languages are like
- Department of Computer Science pizzas - they come in only "too"
- and Engineering sizes: too big and too small."
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