Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Shuttle computer reprogramming
Message-ID: <1988Oct8.233609.11835@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <6689@nsc.nsc.com> <6980@ihlpl.ATT.COM> <1938@kalliope.rice.edu> <2994@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <1344@thumper.bellcore.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 88 23:36:09 GMT

In article <1344@thumper.bellcore.com> karn@thumper.bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn) writes:
>... Running in this computer will be a real-time multitasking
>operating system capable of executing .exe files generated by an MS-DOS
>linker (with a special library) and uploaded from the ground...

Hmm, MSDOS in space.  Better watch out for viruses... :-)
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