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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: ESP
Date: 1996/12/15
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In article <Pine.GSO.3.95.961214131401.15507A-100000@nunic.nu.edu>, Richard Riehle <rriehle@nunic.nu.edu> writes:

>   You may recall that there was a contibutor to the thread on the
>   Ariane incident who kept insisting that everything would have been
>   just fine if the software had been programmed in PL/I instead of
>   Ada.  And in those PL/I posts that contibutor made recurring 
>   references to audit trails and printed reports.  As you and I know,
>   embedded space systems rarely have any attached printers.

If someone had included a printer on the Ariane :-),
would it have been intact after the incident ?

Larry Kilgallen