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<blockquote data-quote="Amen-Moses" data-source="post: 4587" data-attributes="member: 114"><p>As you may have gathered from my previous posts (if you read em that is) as a day job I work as a systems integrator/software developer on a huge air traffic control project here in the UK (in fact it is the largest, most modern one in the world).</p><p></p><p>This involves mainly working in C and Ada on unix high end workstations (IBM RS6000s) interconnected to legacy mainframes which are responsible for the actual route processing portion of the flight data. My "bit" so to speak is the flight data distribution servers which take the data stream from the legacy systems and pass it down to the workstations that the controllers sit in front of, I also developed that part of the system that emulates the legacy systems when the data links fail for whatever reason so we get 24/7 functionality.</p><p></p><p>Yesterday I brought part of the source code from the system home and compiled it on my iMac (with a bit of code change involved here and there), I did this partly due to the fact that we are looking at the possibility of transitioning the system to the PPC range of IBM servers and mostly so I could get paid to sit in front of my dome-bot. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Guess what, it works! I have part of a billion dollar air traffic management system running on my iMac!</p><p></p><p>Cool or what.</p><p></p><p>There is an advert for Ada portability if ever I saw one.</p><p></p><p>Amen-Moses</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Amen-Moses, post: 4587, member: 114"] As you may have gathered from my previous posts (if you read em that is) as a day job I work as a systems integrator/software developer on a huge air traffic control project here in the UK (in fact it is the largest, most modern one in the world). This involves mainly working in C and Ada on unix high end workstations (IBM RS6000s) interconnected to legacy mainframes which are responsible for the actual route processing portion of the flight data. My "bit" so to speak is the flight data distribution servers which take the data stream from the legacy systems and pass it down to the workstations that the controllers sit in front of, I also developed that part of the system that emulates the legacy systems when the data links fail for whatever reason so we get 24/7 functionality. Yesterday I brought part of the source code from the system home and compiled it on my iMac (with a bit of code change involved here and there), I did this partly due to the fact that we are looking at the possibility of transitioning the system to the PPC range of IBM servers and mostly so I could get paid to sit in front of my dome-bot. ;) Guess what, it works! I have part of a billion dollar air traffic management system running on my iMac! Cool or what. There is an advert for Ada portability if ever I saw one. Amen-Moses [/QUOTE]
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