[SystemSafety] Software reliability

[E. Douglas Jensen]

The B-52 was born in 1952 and is expected to remain in service into the 2040's. It has undergone extensive upgrades including a major one in 2013 that involved a lot of electronics and software, but it wouldn't surprise me if there are still bits of 1950's software remaining in the 78 B-52H aircraft still operational.

Doug
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From: systemsafety-bounces at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de [mailto:systemsafety-bounces at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de] On Behalf Of Martyn Thomas
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 7:40 AM
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Subject: Re: [SystemSafety] Software reliability

How about the flight data processing software, NAS? Parts of it date from the 1960s, I think.

Martyn

On 13/03/2015 11:09, Matthew Squair wrote:
An alternative question would be what's the oldest piece of software we know of that's still running?

Open question to the list

Matthew Squair


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