The *cause* of the Ariane 5 failure was the *use* of “Good old stupid
approaches which are proven to be reliable”. Only problem was, it was
proven on less capable hardware, and assumed to be valid on the new
hardware, a demonstrably faulty assumption.
-----Original Message-----
From: Maxim S. Shatskih [mailto:xxxxx@storagecraft.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 6:16 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Cc: ‘NT Developers Interest List’
Subject: [ntdev] RE: System stability was: Mapping scattered pages into
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single piece of hard- and software that is not buggy. Remember the crash of
the European ARIANE 5 rocket. There’s your real-time and process control.
This is another point. Do not compare rocketry to PCs.
In some branches of engineering like rocketry (and many others), innovations
are not so good.
Better to use good old stupid approaches which are proven to be reliable.
Conservatism and suspect to innovations is a common thing there.
Surely the PC and consumer goods industry is not such. But rocketry is.
Even mainframes are, that’s why they are still alive.
Max
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