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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: SPACE Digest V5 #158
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Date: Fri, 17-May-85 13:23:32 EDT
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> The fact that they were able to survive this disaster is a tribute to
> the design philosophy of the Block II Apollo system which (unlike the
> earlier Block I design of ill-fated fire on the pad fame) allowed for
> virtual real-time system reconfiguration to meet certain contingencies.

It's also a tribute to the paranoia of some of the early planners, who
put their feet down hard and *insisted* that the LM and CM had to use
identical computers.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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