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Subject: Re: USSR Microcomputers: How far behind US?
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Date: 8 May 89 16:17:09 GMT
References: <1905@etive.ed.ac.uk> <4366@ttidca.TTI.COM> <476@bnr-fos.UUCP>
Reply-To: alanj@nevermore.wv.tek.com (Alan Jeddeloh)
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In article <476@bnr-fos.UUCP> schow%BNR.CA.bitnet@relay.cs.net (Stanley Chow) writes:
.So, the USSR tests their shuttle with computer controlled landing,
.and the USA tests theirs with people.
.
.This says either the USSR trusts their computers more, or values their
.pilots more. To send pilots up on the first flight sounds to me a little
."gutsy", especailly when you have computer that can land the shuttle.

          especially

It may mean that the USSR trusts their hardware less that the US trusts
theirs.  Whether the US trust in the hardware is misplaced is another issue.

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