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: 103376,885dab3998d28a4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney) Subject: Re: Ariane 5 failure Date: 1996/10/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 186889739 references: <96100112290401@psavax.pwfl.com> <32531A6F.6EDB@dynamite.com.au> <3252B46C.5E9D@lmtas.lmco.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 organization: Estormza Software mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3252B46C.5E9D@lmtas.lmco.com>, Ken Garlington wrote: >Interesting that a $100K difference in per-unit cost in your systems is >negligible. No wonder people think military systems are too expensive! I think he meant "negligable compared to the programming cost that would be required to get the software to run on the cheaper hardware." It's never cost effective to skimp on hardware if it means human programmers have to write more complex software. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Heaney Software Development Consultant mheaney@ni.net (818) 985-1271