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In article <11749@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven M. Bellovin) writes:
>> The real botch here is that the computers are so inaccessible that it takes
>> four hours to replace one.
>
>Sorry, I don't necessarily agree.  As Henry obviously knows, design of
>something like a space shuttle is a series of tradeoffs...

Granted... but NASA has somewhat of a history of assuming that the hardware
must work -- it says so in The Book, after all! -- and so it's unnecessary
to set things up so the astronauts can fix it.  I.e., while tradeoffs do
happen, they can and do get skewed by institutional biases.
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