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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: USSR Microcomputers: How far behind US?
Message-ID: <4366@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 4 May 89 20:28:02 GMT
References: <1805@orion.cf.uci.edu> <8013@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <528@laic.UUCP> <1905@etive.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath)
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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?

I think ours has the capability, but it's reserved for emergency use
because of safety considerations.  I helped with some of the initial
testing and development of the Heads Up Display (HUD).  It provides a
zero-zero landing capability, among other things, but, for obvious
reasons, they avoid using it in that capacity.

(Would you fly several billion dollars worth of hardware blind if you
didn't have to?)

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