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Subject: Re: Ariane5 FAQ
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 00:13:16 +0000, Hyman Rosen wrote:

> Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
>> No, AFAIK it wasn't. IIRC the system was specified to shut down and
>> send diagnostic data in this case. And that's what it did.
> 
> The system was designed to treat any exception as a hardware fault and
> shut down. The overlow in the BH paramater caused an exception which led
> to a shutdown, but it's too much of a stretch to say that this was part
> of the specified behavior, since the overflow was not supposed to
> happen.

Which brings us directly back to Alexandre's "there were no reasons to
expect that it should work for this new rocket", which you objected to so
strenuously at the start of this tread.

-- 
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas