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From: rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang)
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Subject: Re: USSR Microcomputers: How far behind US?
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Date: 4 May 89 13:00:10 GMT
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In-reply-to: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk's message of 3 May 89 09:38:40 GMT

In article <1905@etive.ed.ac.uk> nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:

   Well, in Space Research in particular, I get the impression that the USSR
   have some advantages. How come their space shuttle can land itself, but the
   American one can't?

Because the American one was designed quite a while ago, and uses
repackaged IBM System/360 machines as its computers.  NASA has too
small a budget to design a new shuttle with more modern computers, and
rewrite all the software (I believe that quite a lot of the shuttle's
software is actually left from Apollo days).
  At least, that's the short answer.  I just wish we were still
supporting NASA at the level we used to....

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