Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: CHALLENGE: typing and reusability (was: Re: blip) Message-ID: <8PGA3=7@xds13.ferranti.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <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. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"