Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: 55 MIPS & 66 MIPS (Galileo)
Message-ID: <1989Dec4.171505.22203@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <31329@winchester.mips.COM> <1358@bnr-rsc.UUCP> <5275@omepd.UUCP> <32528@winchester.mips.COM> <128680@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 89 17:15:05 GMT

In article <128680@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> khb@chiba.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages) writes:
>(galileo, for instance, is 1802 based ... and it is possibly the most
>complex deep space probe yet flown).

It's also a twenty-year-old design built ten years ago.  Galileo has waited
a *long* time to fly, due to an excruciating series of problems with launch
vehicles and upper stages.  (In some ways this is a good thing, because a
major design defect in Galileo's thrusters was discovered less than a year
ago...!)  It is definitely the most complex deep-space mission yet flown,
but is not representative of technology that would be used today.
-- 
Mars can wait:  we've barely   |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
started exploring the Moon.    | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu


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