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- Ada in the Cairo and Calcutta Metro Systems
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- (source: Alsys World Dialogue, vol. 7, no. 2, Summer/Fall 1993)
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- The Cairo and Calcutta subway networks will soon be run by Alsys Ada.
- GEC-Alsthom recently purchased AdaWorld for native environments on HP
- 9000/400 and cross development environments for SPARC and 386-hosted to
- Intel/Multibus II environments to develop the centralized command
- systems for the subway networks. A team of fifteen software engineers,
- writing an estimated several hundred thousand lines of Ada code, will be
- responsible for applications that ensure railway traffic control. In
- addition to train flow and schedule regulations, the program will
- include data collection for establishing statistics.
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- Developed on behalf of the Egyptian National Railways and with the
- cooperation of the consulting agency, National Authority for Tunnel, the
- Ramses project involves the Regional Express Railway line which is 40
- kilometers long and equipped with 33 railway stations that link the
- north and south suburbs of the Egyptian capital.
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- The project for Calcutta, ordered by Metro Railway of Calcutta, includes
- the Metropolitan Railway line serving the Indian metropolis.
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