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Article #3269Re: 55 MIPS & 66 MIPS (Galileo)
From: Eugene Brooks
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1989 06:43
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1989 06:43
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In article <1989Dec4.171505.22203@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >It's also a twenty-year-old design built ten years ago. Galileo has waited >a *long* time to fly, due to an excruciating series of problems with launch >vehicles and upper stages. (In some ways this is a good thing, because a >major design defect in Galileo's thrusters was discovered less than a year >ago...!) It is definitely the most complex deep-space mission yet flown, >but is not representative of technology that would be used today. You mean not representative of technology that would be used in a mission designed today, built 10 years from now, and flown 20 years from now. Technology changes, but the way such missions are arranged and delayed does not... Please note the lack of a smilie... brooks@maddog.llnl.gov, brooks@maddog.uucp
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!lll-winken!maddog!brooks From: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: 55 MIPS & 66 MIPS (Galileo) Message-ID: <40547@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Date: 5 Dec 89 06:43:17 GMT References: <31329@winchester.mips.COM> <1358@bnr-rsc.UUCP> <5275@omepd.UUCP> <32528@winchester.mips.COM> <128680@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1989Dec4.171505.22203@utzoo.uucp> Sender: usenet@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV Reply-To: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lines: 13