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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,267eec8ad557a7d0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson) Subject: Re: ARIANE-5 Failure Date: 1996/06/10 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 159542010 sender: news@thomsoft.com (USENET News Admin @flash) x-nntp-posting-host: pulsar references: <834097751.22632.0@assen.demon.co.uk> <31B7A88D.446B@lri.fr> <31B7DEDD.E2A@lmtas.lmco.com> organization: Thomson Software Products, San Diego, CA, USA newsgroups: comp.lang.ada originator: kst@pulsar Date: 1996-06-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: [...] > But it would be nice to find out, anyone on this list have a REALLY > AUTHORITATIVE first-hand source for the truth on this one (it is one > that many people "know" the answer to, but as Jim pointed out, they > disagree and can't all be right!) Perhaps this isn't "REALLY AUTHORITATIVE", but it seems to be within two or three steps of being first-hand knowledge. According to Paul Ceruzzi's book "Beyond the Limits -- Flight Enters the Computer Age", the loss of the Mariner I Venus probe was due not to a Fortran error, but to a missing bar in a hand-written equation. For details, see RISKS Digest 8.75, available at . -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@thomsoft.com <*> TeleSoft^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Alsys^H^H^H^H^H Thomson Software Products 10251 Vista Sorrento Parkway, Suite 300, San Diego, CA, USA, 92121-2718 This sig uses the word "Exon" in violation of the Communications Decency Act.