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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Launch On Schedule
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Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 08:31:15 EDT
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> I have no details of what happened, but I did hear on the news that NASA
> has scheduled upgrades for the shuttles' computer systems for ~1987.

Something that surprised me about the computer malfunctions was that they
apparently tested whether the redundant systems were synchronized by
stopping both of them, making a dump, and comparing the dumps.  This seemed
very odd to me; don't they have any checks while they are running to verify
that they are synchronized?  Or was something lost in the news reporting
(i.e., is it more complicated than that)?
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