> --- Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com> wrote:
> > Ok, here's a quote from one of my favorite computer scientists
> > (Tom VanVleck...
> >
> > The quote is from an article of his on the Multicians web site:
> >
> > http://www.multicians.org/thvv/evolution.html
> >
> > I left my last job as a full-time programmer in 1990. A young
> > Russian (who had written some of the software tools used in
> > generating the control programming for Snowflake, the never-used
> > Soviet space shuttle)
>
> I've seen the Buran (sitting in Gorky Park at the moment). I've never
> heard it called "Snowflake". Is this the same bird? The Buran flew
> once, unmanned, and is now a tourist attraction, rotting away in the
> Russian weather. I have some pictures I can scan if anyone cares.
Now that you've said it, I do recall Dmitri called it the "Buran";
it was some other reference lost to memory that called it the
"Snowflake"... I always ASS-U-MEd Buran == Snowflake...
-dq
Received on Mon Jun 19 2000 - 13:02:52 BST