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Upgrade drags Stealth Bomber IT systems into the 90s
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Posted by Krux on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @ 10:05am
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Upgrade drags Stealth Bomber IT systems into the 90s

US aerospace heavyweight Northrop Grumman has revealed some details of a planned upgrade to the computing system of the famous B-2 Stealth Bomber, one of the most expensive and unusual aircraft in the world. According to reports, the well-known but seldom seen ghost bomber will be finally moving up to Pentium processors and code written in C. The B-2 will also get a new disk drive.

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It seems that the current OFP was written in a now-obsolete programming language called JOVIAL. Northrop are proud to announce that they have figured out how to translate the code into a "newer, more modern programming language called C


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Posted by Stealth on Thursday July 17, 2008 @ 10:01am
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i liked this comment:
The new disk drive - a piece of kit seen by US government auditors as "high risk", but in which the air force and Northrop have full confidence

Drives are pretty risky.. I'm a bit surprised they didn't use SSD drives.


- stealth -
You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity. - Bullet Tooth Tony


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Posted by voltaic on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @ 10:00pm
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"When asked why a complete rewrite of an existing, tested, and well-understood piece of code was necessary, one project manager stated 'Billable hours kick ass!' "

Well, this is by far the least painful (and cheapest) thing I've done
for a broad. ha ha ha... it only goes down hill from here... -stealth


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Posted by Krux on Wednesday July 16, 2008 @ 10:38am
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"When asked why a complete rewrite of an existing, tested, and well-understood piece of code was necessary, one project manager stated 'Billable hours kick ass!' "

Hell yea they do!

"Money isn't everything... It's also the goods and services that you can buy with the money."


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