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Summary: C code developed with the waterfall methodology, running under VxWorks, all on a 33Mhz PowerPC board. Someone who works in embedded software could clar
by jcromartie 18y ago
Summary: C code developed with the waterfall methodology, running under VxWorks, all on a 33Mhz PowerPC board. Someone who works in embedded software could clarify this for me, but isn't that a fairly standard setup? Whatever gets the job done, right?
For what I've heard about NASA using Lisp and Forth for some of its software, especially when they had to remotely debug and update the spacecraft, this was a little disappointing.
- zandorg 18y agoRon Garret details some of the Lisp NASA development. The basic thing was, it was used as an experiment on a deep space test probe (I think) but they switched to C++ because of orders from on high. http://web.archive.org/web/20070228160104/http://ase.arc.nasa.gov/publications/pdf/2000-0176.pdf http://web.archive.org/web/20070228160104/http://ase.arc.nas...
- d0mine 18y agoMemory: 128M
- shaunxcode 18y agosome of the coolest nasa/lisp stuff I stumbled upon was called "pacman". It was a 3d bin packing algorithm for figuring out optimal placement of cargo etc.