[futurebasic] Re: [FB] Airborne Computers (X-FB)

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From: jonathan <jonathan@...>
Date: Mar, 27 Oct 98 19:07:41 +0100
>>Thought the list people might be interested to know that our glorious FB
>>made it into orbit a few months back.  Okay, FB itself didn't make it, but
>>apps created with FB sure enough did!  On flight-approved PB 170s, no less.
>
>Just a cautionary note. Unless you've locked down the code, when an aircraft
>banks, all the noughts roll to one side causing the software to crash.
>Probably doesn't happen under weightless conditions.

Nope. In wightless conditions you get floating point maths :-)

jonathan

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