Re: Future of Electronics In Aviation

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 Le Chaud Lapin <jaibuduvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> I agree. Safety is paramount.  Computers, with proper discipline on
> behalf of the designer, can be programmed to speak up when they are
> sick or think there is a chance that they could be sick.  They can
> even help in complaining about potential future faults in mechanical
> components.  For example, using raw data such as temperture, humidity,
> pressure, fuel mixture, and power-output, a computer very easily can
> calculate probability of carb icing.  There is an essentially
> unlimited number of things that a computer can assisst with in flying
> that comes at no real material cost beyond having put the computer in
> place in the first place.

What makes you think that software engineering, or system engineering,
has progressed to the point that a software intensive system would be
developed "with proper discipline"?

-- 
Bob Noel
(goodness, please trim replies!!!)