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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: CHALLENGE: typing and reusability (was: Re: blip)
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
References: <jls.670121104@rutabaga> <49194@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <8ACALA5@xds13.ferranti.com> <49588@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 91 17:52:04 GMT

In article <49588@nigel.ee.udel.edu> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
> Hmmm... I hadn't heard this one.  I have heard that by the time the
> software got to the shuttle simulator, if it (the software) crashed,
> somebody lost their job (at least).

It didn't "crash", per se. But it did hold the launch: they have these 4
computers that vote on the action to take, and a fifth computer implemented
by different people doing the same algorithms as an extra check, and the
fifth computer kept disagreeing with the first 4.

Yes, it was software.
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