Originally Posted by
JD-EE
Please tell me I'm not putting my life in the metaphorical hands of a potential priority inversion or interrupts left off for too long. And I hope the CPUs and hardware on the flying planes are used at about 10% of their ultimate capacity if they are using multi-tasking.
Bear in mind that he's probably talking about the current modern interfaces to the flight management software, not the control logic itself. I wouldn't like to try to implement a touch-screen interface (as used on the A380 and B787) using a finite state machine!
Originally Posted by
CogSim
6 million lines of code in A320 class a/c !!!
Er, no -
60,000. You're off by a factor of 100 (or two orders of magnitude, depending on how you want to look at it).