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Subject: Ada/Real-Time Book
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     For those interested in real-time and embedded systems, a new 1990
book has come out.  "Real-Time Systems and Their Programming Languages"
by Alan Burns & Andy Wellings is sold by Addison Wesley (ISBN 0-201-17529-
0).  The book focuses on the use of Ada, Modula-2 and Occam 2.  

Highlights of the book include:
- an introductory survey of critical issues in real-time systems
- a detailed comparison and evaluation of the major real-time languages
- a special emphasis on the production of reliable software components
- a case study in Ada, showing how the techniques are applied in a mine
control system
- emphasis on software engineering and reliability

The book can be directly ordered from the publisher via:
    1-800-447-2226 or 1-617-261-0363

- joe
carozzoni@tops20.radc.af.mil
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