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From: Dmitry A.Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: POLL: Would you use Ada more if...
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 00:56:43 +0200
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Robert A Duff wrote:

> That reminds me of a talk I heard some years ago, given by a guy from
> NASA.  He was talking about the software for the Apollo program.  They
> had weight budgets for all the pieces of the rocket -- obviously you
> want to make the thing as light as possible if you're launching it into
> space.  So the manager asked the software guy how much the software
> would weigh.  He said software doesn't weigh anything.  The manager said
> come on, these weight budgets are very important, even if it's not much,
> every ounce counts.  The software guy tried in vain to convince the
> manager that the weight of software really is zero.  Eventually the
> software guy showed the manager a deck of punch cards, and said, See the
> holes?  That's the software.  Then the manager understood.

(:-)) 

[OT] I have almost forgot physics, but I suppose that the weights of 
RAM/ROM bits set to 0 and 1 should slightly differ. So same CPU may weigh a 
pair picogramms (?) more or less depending on the software version.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry Kazakov
www.dmitry-kazakov.de