From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c617ae447ca32f2f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-11 06:47:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ariane Failure Date: 11 Apr 2002 06:47:14 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0204110547.36730467@posting.google.com> References: <3CA50E9A.CBF24F1B@lanl.gov> <3CB3031A.26E08904@gbr.msd.ray.com> <3CB435A4.8A011DF1@gbr.msd.ray.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1018532834 6543 127.0.0.1 (11 Apr 2002 13:47:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Apr 2002 13:47:14 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22360 Date: 2002-04-11T13:47:14+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" wrote in message news:... > "Never" is a really long time! :-) Seriously. There are lots of good > engineering reasons to develop multi-redundant identical systems. See my > other post relating to that. See RAID and JABOD drives as one example of > how/why this can be a good thing. In fact, I can tell you firsthand that NASA's STGT sattelite/shuttle groundstation is designed exactly that way. -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html