be programmed
for survival.  If there is an in-flight abort that requires returning to the
ground from halfway to orbit, the pilot must turn a rotary switch on the
console to choose between returning to Florida and landing in Senegal.  The
switch controls loading of data and routines into the computers.  This was
required because the software for flying the Shuttle runs ~500k of code, and
the computers can only handle 64k.  The decision routines for which part of
the software to swap in were left in the pilots head.

Dani Eder/Advanced Space Transportation/Boeing/ssc-vax!eder

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Date: 14 Apr 86 19:26:11 GMT
From: decvax!linus!faron!rubenk@ucbvax.berkeley.edu  (Ruben J. Kleiman)
Subject: Re: Natural Language processing

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