At 10:48 PM -0400 6/10/01, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
>other hand, I'd guess NASA can probably afford a test version of
>their space craft... I do hope you'll try this there before borking
>the one out yonder. ;^>

Yes, we have two testbeds with at least a partial complement of 
flight spare and engineering model hardware.  Of course I'll test the 
solution before flying it.  There's no way NASA HQ would let the Lab 
Director let the Project Manager let me get close to sending anything 
to the spacecraft without some appropriate tests.  I suppose doing it 
on the last day before we turn out the lights would help some though. 
;-)  I'm just looking for gotcha's before I propose a getting the 
team organized to develop the code, operations procedures and the 
ground support.

>You might get a better audience from port-powerpc, btw.

I should have thought of that.  OTOH there's a lot less traffic on 
that list.  Don't think I'll repost though since it's so far 
off-topic.


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