Re: Porting VMS versus building a new spacecraft

On 2024-06-10, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh@hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:

On 2024-06-07 12:36:15 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
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$ set response/mode=good_natured
 
It occurred to me yesterday that Elon Musk has been able to build and
successfully fly (mostly) a new rocket and spacecraft in less time than
it has taken to port VMS to x86-64. :-)

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The "move fast and break things" technical strategy employed at SpaceX
tends to be decidedly unpopular around here.  ?? Once past its
initial development, Falcon has been a very solid platform. How that
works for Starship?
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The most exciting thing about Falcon is that Elon Musk has made space
access routine.

Also, thanks to him, we are now close to having the technology that
could be used to build a Thunderbird 3 for real. Technology that was
once just futuristic science fiction is on the verge of becoming reality.
Think about _that_ for a moment and about how far we have come over the
last 10 years...

(Hmmm, perhaps someone should put that TB3 idea into his head for real. :-))

Simon.

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