> It would be interesting to know if anyone can cite a real world example
> of someone who thought that a software project could be accomplished by
> a team of 200 people, and it actually turned out to be true.


The Boeing 777 fly-by-wire system...
Never a plane crash due to a software bug... written in Ada.
http://archive.adaic.com/projects/atwork/boeing.html
http://www.citemaster.net/getdoc/9240/yeh98_777-fbw.pdf
http://www.springerlink.com/content/gr578227271350x7/

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.
Like the difference between A.I. and A.G.I.

- Darius


*Honeywell's massive effort on the 777 involved over 550 software developers
> *. 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 that "The federated system is obsolete.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."


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.



>
>> It would be interesting to know if anyone can cite a real world example
>> of someone who thought that a software project could be accomplished by
>> a team of 200 people, and it actually turned out to be true.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
>>  How many people in the Windows team?
>
> Well, OK, a reliable project...
>
>
> L.
>
>
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