Hi: Not really a Y2K type problem but more related to the 360 deg change in longitude. "When the fighters crossed the line, all of their computer systems went Tango Uniform - fuel subsystems, navigation, and some of the comms."
If the computer program is in the millions of lines and had this bug, what other bugs does it have? http://www.defensetech.org/archives/cat_stray_trons.html http://www.defensetech.org/archives/003315_comments.html http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6225 http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/24/tww.01.html Aired February 24, 2007 - 19:00 ET The F-22 story is after the second (COMMERCIAL BREAK) "ROBERTS: Twenty five years from development to deployment, the F-22 Raptor is the most advanced fighting machine in the air. But it was no match for a computer glitch that left six of them high above the Pacific Ocean, deaf, dumb and blind as they headed to their first deployment. So what happened?" F-22 Software Risk Reduction - May 2000 Issue Ada 83 will continue to be the primary language used on the F-22 (80-85 percent) http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/Crosstalk/2000/05/moody.html Have Fun, Brooke Clarke -- w/Java http://www.PRC68.com w/o Java http://www.pacificsites.com/~brooke/PRC68COM.shtml http://www.precisionclock.com _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts