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.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2020 11:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: The ancient computers in the Boeing 737 Max are holding up a fix Not an IBM mainframe this time. https://secure-web.cisco.com/155tdr-tzfwwW43Kkk4e8TtwmsrHe_L5ngDKCsa1vYip1u7ED-wHfm4Km99TEIOLy3de2euOaSuS1mAC48J_mxRNrB7PRY5ikkb6V8TTfcNErBVi7FWuJ8mNZs2vst9szPkuq1-jWZxR864pHKemcAd2E-Kk-0xny1JpT1kR03Aop4vs-seGG6DqbfsWdIV80Jdd3WI8g-80PcjaTAeCGvI26XwUQySq4qO-BKWRJSiYGELjMcfziJMkZeT7NFcAu8EZ86dGGNaEW4VJRwWDgpTtDGmzTzkoPm446wma7dft2YzvfgrTctYckubp57w4KEe3PbjWnrsfiKqVeGmBJ5rYAlmC-EcJRd48nhmtYDw-3gFP6vtTg-EhF6IwqPojBuFhfiVpPGKKeFsT0CIQjebD_KZRSKxbVePQ5ZLo6uicjtS_a2rzpQcFptY2U_fpgddFIG9dTrZ7-lQID1l6XVg/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theverge.com%2F2020%2F4%2F9%2F21197162%2Fboeing-737-max-software-hardware-computer-fcc-crash The perils of fixing a hardware problem with software (lotsa ads) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
