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It would be interesting to know if anyone can cite a real world example<br>of someone who thought that a software project could be accomplished by<br>a team of 200 people, and it actually turned out to be true.</blockquote>
</div><div><br></div><div>The Boeing 777 fly-by-wire system...</div><div>Never a plane crash due to a software bug... written in Ada. </div><div><a href="http://archive.adaic.com/projects/atwork/boeing.html">http://archive.adaic.com/projects/atwork/boeing.html</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.citemaster.net/getdoc/9240/yeh98_777-fbw.pdf">http://www.citemaster.net/getdoc/9240/yeh98_777-fbw.pdf</a></div><div><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/gr578227271350x7/">http://www.springerlink.com/content/gr578227271350x7/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>But, I still love Smalltalk for expressing/representing general ideas which change as people's thinking changes and as cellular biology changes rather than engineering a completely known domain. </div>
<div>Like the difference between A.I. and A.G.I. </div><div><br></div><div>- Darius</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(0,51,0);font-family:Garamond,Palatino,'Times Roman',Times,serif;font-size:medium"><b>Honeywell's massive effort on the 777 involved over 550 software developers</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(0,51,0);font-family:Garamond,Palatino,'Times Roman',Times,serif;font-size:medium">. The company built the AIMS computer as a custom platform based on the AMD 29050 processor. It was unique among aviation systems for integrating the other computers' functions; in other systems, each function resides in a different box [the central maintenance had its own box with its own input/output (I/O), its own central processing unit (CPU), etc.]. AIMS combines all these functions and shares the CPU and I/O among them: it uses the same signals for flight management and for displays, so that the data comes in only once instead of twice; one input circuit provides data to all of the functions; each of the functions gets a piece of the CPU, as in a mainframe computer, where systems use part of the CPU but not all of it; and every function is guaranteed its time slot. Engineer Jeff Greeson said that "The federated system is obsolete. Putting all the functions in one box is a jump ahead in technology that we've brought to the industry."</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(0,51,0);font-family:Garamond,Palatino,'Times Roman',Times,serif;font-size:medium">Honeywell's Airplane Information Management System (AIMS) project consists of the largest central computer on the jetliner; it runs 613,000 new lines of code (defined as body semicolons), taking up 15,656 kilobytes (KB) of disk space and 4,854 KB of random-access memory (RAM). With redundancy, the software runs to 46,191 KB and 10,732 KB of RAM. A multiprocessor, rack-mounted system, the AIMS replaced many of the line-replaceable units and reduced hardware and software redundancy.</span> </blockquote>
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It would be interesting to know if anyone can cite a real world example<br>
of someone who thought that a software project could be accomplished by<br>
a team of 200 people, and it actually turned out to be true.<br>
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Dave<br>
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How many people in the Windows team?<br>
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Well, OK, a reliable project...<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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