Conference 44.370::system_management

422.0. "The fastest VAX around....." by CURRNT::RUSSELL (IBM (I've been moved) to F11/2!) Fri May 10 1991 18:08

    
                    ON-BOARD SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY
                              VAX IN SPACE
    
    
        Sunday morning at Mission Elapsed Time 0 days, 4 hours,
    11 minutes, and 55 seconds at 11:45:09 am local time, the first
    VAX in-space, booted VMS.  Controllers at Goddard Space Flight
    Center report that all sensors are nominal and that the
    verification and checkout phase of the mission is proceeding
    normally.
    
        The computer is a specially-built, militarized VAX 6210
    manufactured by Raytheon Equipment Division.  The boot device is
    a read/write optical disk manufactured by Sundstrand Avionics
    Systems Division.  The system was flight-qualified by the
    Engineering Division of Goddard Space Flight Center.
    
        Controllers at Goddard Space Flight Center also report, based
    on Discovery's orbital velocity of 17,438 mph, that VMS is now
    the fastest commercially-available operating system.
    
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