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From: Joseph C Williams <u6p35@gsde.hso.link.com>
Subject: Re: Ariane 5 failure
Date: 1996/10/04
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Why didn't they run the code against an Ariane 5 simulator to
reverify the Ariane 4 software what was reused?  A good real-time
engineering simulation would have caught the problem.