Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Soviet and American Shuttles
Message-ID: <1988Oct13.031325.28281@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1574@nunki.usc.edu> <3020@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 88 03:13:25 GMT

In article <3020@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> david@beowulf.JPL.NASA.GOV (David Smyth) writes:
>...  And, I'll bet a donut that it will fly with IBM 370s in
>the racks, executing HAL/S software, just like ours.  JUST like
>ours.

That's probably why they're having so much trouble with the software :-)
(which is reported to be the pacing factor in the program at the moment).
"Comrade, I *told* you we should have written our own rather than copying
this American trash!!"  ;-)
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