[yellowdog-announce] Terra Soft Supplies Boeing, Airforce with Flight Simulators: Press Release 2004 11/01

[yellowdog-announce at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]

TERRA SOFT SUPPLIES BOEING, AIRFORCE WITH FLIGHT SIMULATORS

Loveland, Colorado -- 1 November 2004 -- Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., leading 
developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions has delivered 17 dual-head 
Apple Power Mac G5s to Ellsworth and Dyess Airforce bases to serve as flight 
simulators for the Boeing B1 bombers.

In the fall of 2003, The Boeing Company approached Terra Soft Solutions with 
desire to use Apple G5 Power Macs with dual Apple Cinema Displays as the 
foundation for Airforce B1 Weapons Systems Officers ("WSOs") simulation and 
training environments. Terra Soft was able to quickly adapt their display 
drivers to support the required dual displays while integrating a PCMCIA 
flash card reader.

Boeing extracted the actual Ada95 code used on-board the B1 and the FORTRAN 
and C code from its development simulators, ported it to Yellow Dog Linux, 
and then ported and applied a C Motif graphical user interface which 
simulates the physical switch panel and displays on-board the B1 bomber.

Following a successful demonstration of a prototype completed in early 2004, 
Ellsworth and Dyess Airforce bases expressed sincere interest in this unique 
solution as it enables the WSOs to conduct realtime training without the cost 
and risk of actual flight time.

Based upon the successful deployment of the initial production units, Boeing 
and Terra Soft are providing many more of these units for the B1 program. In 
addition, it is likely that other aircraft will be simulated on a similar 
system in the near future, resulting in the potential of greater than 200 
systems to ship in 2005.


About Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Terra Soft is a leading Integrated Solutions Provider with proven expertise in 
the PowerPC architecture and Linux OS platform. As an Apple Authorized 
Proprietary Solutions Provider and IBM Business Partner, Terra Soft provides 
turnkey and build-to-order portables, desktop workstations, application and 
network servers, and HPC clusters. Terra Soft offers both 32-bit and 64-bit 
PowerPC Linux distributions.

For more information, visit http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/


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