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From: randhol@bacchus.pvv.ntnu.no (Preben Randhol)
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Subject: Re: Would You Fly an Airplane with a Linux-Based Control System?
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:06:53 +0000 (UTC)
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In article Marius Amado Alves wrote:
>I'm not mistaken. What you say does not disprove my hypothesis. Look, I 
>probably know the story as well as you guys. And the story is that an 
>Ada software component from Ariane 4 was reused for Ariane 5 without 
>change. This and the fact that there was an hardware mismatch resulted 
>in a BUGGY software system. Just answer this: how was the system fixed? 
>Did they change the hardware? No. Ergo, the software was at fault, not 
>the hardware.

Changing from Ariane 4 to Ariane 5 wasn't a hardware change?

Preben