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drm604

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1. I worked on a team writing code for a NASA satellite ground station.

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Fri Mar 1, 2013, 04:24 PM

Mar 2013

This was back in the late 80s, early 90s. All of the code was written so as to store regular checkpoints so that if it became necessary to fail over to the backup computer, it could resume where it had left off without any loss of state or data.

NASA is big on redundancy, for obvious reasons.

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I worked on a team writing code for a NASA satellite ground station. drm604 Mar 2013 #1

Thanks for posting this. red dog 1 Mar 2013 #2