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That hasn't been the case in Vienna for some years, so you must have seen that setup a decade or so, ago.

These days its THALES-built systems running SIL-4 rated code in a best 2-of-3 or 3-of-5 voting system, and each of the nodes can be either PPC, Arm or x86 - but not all the same, for architecture reasons. These systems produce a vote that has to match, or else the system shuts itself down. Chill and Prolog haven't been shipped in that capacity in decades...

(Disclaimer: worked for Thales on these systems, had to help remove a ton of Chill code, fix bugs in its compiler, etc.)




Yeah, I was involved in the Alcatel system in the 90s.

Still, the basic point is interesting: the Thales system also uses a separation of architecture.




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