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From: ag129@ucs.cam.ac.uk (A. Grant)
Subject: Re: Ariane 5 failure
Date: 1996/09/25
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In article <32492E5C.562@lmtas.lmco.com> Byron Kauffman <KauffmanBB@lmtas.lmco.com> writes:
>Several EXTREMELY competent and experienced engineers who actually have
>written flight-control software have patiently, and in some cases
>(though I can't blame them) impatiently attempted to explain the
>situation - that this was a bad design/management decision combined with
>a fatal oversight in testing - to this poor student, but alas, to no
>avail.

Robin is not a student.  He is a senior lecturer at the Royal
Melbourne Institute of Technology, a highly reputable institution.