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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Shuttle replacement
- Message-ID: <BxzLMF.5J6@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:37:24 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.194901.16883@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1992Nov19.073340.27278@netcom.com> <1992Nov19.202302.5796@iti.org> <STEINLY.92Nov19135044@topaz.ucsc.edu>
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- In article <STEINLY.92Nov19135044@topaz.ucsc.edu> steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson) writes:
- >... the operation costs do seem quite optimistic, in
- >particular I'd have thought the early years operation would be higher
- >while ground support learned some maintenance procedures and
- >operational experience was developed on what needs inspection and
- >refurbishing between flights? I just don't see any way around that,
- >are the DCs really that much simpler?
-
- Wrong question. There are two ways to go about this. One is to assume
- that between-flights turnaround will be very complex, but it will get
- better if we look for ways to improve it. The other is to assume that
- it will be simple, although a few complications may be found. Oddly
- enough, only the second approach ever results in something simple and
- cheap. You can always come up with reasons why complexity is needed,
- especially after you've already written the manuals and hired the staff.
- Simple systems do not evolve from complex ones.
-
- The right question is: why should the DCs be much more complex than
- high-performance aircraft?
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- MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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