Who invented the internet?

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Wed Feb 17 20:43:26 1999

<Well, if you mean the rescue I think you mean, it's actually in the Indian
<Ocean. That's where the Challenger went down. The fuel tank and solids
<(booster rockets) went down near Florida, but the Challenger went down on
<the far side of Africa if memory serves me.

Challenger went down near Florida as well

The failure mode was the Solids burnt through the Orings joining the
segments and cooked the main tank, boom.

<"calling" a subroutine, requiring you to have your program store in
<read/write memory. This ultimately meant that flaws masked by the
<redundancy of the system could become "inherited" from one mission to the
<next. There were other pitfalls as well.

Can't see why, RW memory lost it's contents on power down and the plated
wire was rom for the most part.

Allison
Received on Wed Feb 17 1999 - 20:43:26 GMT