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Real time Ada in the International Space Station freedom

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Ada: Moving Towards 2000 (Ada-Europe 1992)

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This paper describes the Space Station Freedom, its Data Management System architecture, the on-board systems using this architecture, the design of the real time distributed Ada software, and methods of integration of the real time components. Problems encountered that are unique to the Ada programming language and their solutions will be addressed.

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Raines, G. (1992). Real time Ada in the International Space Station freedom. In: van Katwijk, J. (eds) Ada: Moving Towards 2000. Ada-Europe 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 603. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55585-4_2

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