Re: The ancient computers in the Boeing 737 Max are holding up a fix

2020-04-10 Thread scott Ford
Nightwatch my father had a phrase , “buy cheap get cheap” On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 10:49 AM Nightwatch RenBand < johnmattson...@gmail.com> wrote: > Quick, Cheap, Good > You may have any TWO... but almost never all three. > > -- >

Re: The ancient computers in the Boeing 737 Max are holding up a fix

2020-04-10 Thread Nightwatch RenBand
Quick, Cheap, Good You may have any TWO... but almost never all three. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: The ancient computers in the Boeing 737 Max are holding up a fix

2020-04-10 Thread Seymour J Metz
I'd say that the issue is not trying to solve hardware problems with software; the problem is cutting corners on software and training. Of course, the reference to single-bit errors was unnerving; is there any excuse for a flight control computer that doesn't have ECC? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.)

The ancient computers in the Boeing 737 Max are holding up a fix

2020-04-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
Not an IBM mainframe this time. https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/9/21197162/boeing-737-max-software-hardware-computer-fcc-crash The perils of fixing a hardware problem with software (lotsa ads) -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe