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"In the embedded world" covers a huge area, including mission-critical avionics code, which likely has much higher safety standard than, say, Android.
by smilekzs 10y ago
"In the embedded world" covers a huge area, including mission-critical avionics code, which likely has much higher safety standard than, say, Android.
- hexane360 10y agoAlthough from hearing about the Apollo Guidance Computer, it's just as much of a miracle they were able to get it to work without any debugging or compilers, with basically one shot to write the program to ROM.
- roberthensing 10y agoWell they put in an effort of 1400 man years for just the software. They even built an interpreter, because (flight/trajectory) requirements were changing all the time. Also: "The highest level of testing was performed with a high fidelity digital simulation of the computer, spacecraft hardware, and mission environment." http://klabs.org/history/history_docs/mit_docs/1711.pdf http://klabs.org/history/history_docs/mit_docs/1711.pdf
- swah 10y agoAnd the architecture of the whole system is commonly an infinite while loop.
- smilekzs 10y agoNot necesarily. RTOS is gaining market.