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- Path: sparky!uunet!hela.iti.org!aws
- From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
- Subject: Re: Latest Pegasus news?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.182405.7430@iti.org>
- Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
- References: <1992Dec27.203327.21241@iti.org> <1992Dec31.004513.12224@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.725820266@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:24:05 GMT
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- In <1992Dec31.004513.12224@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
-
- >You misrepresent my position. All I'm saying is that new systems are
- >rarely as cheap and easy in metal as they are on paper.
-
- Gary, I refer you to my recent posting where I compared DC costs to
- Shuttle costs. I encoumbered DC with development costs but not Shuttle.
- I doubled DC's DDT&E, production and operations costs. It still came up
- a winner.
-
- Nobody is saying it will be a piece of cake. Are you saying that a factor
- of two isn't enough to cover the risk? If not, then what's your point?
-
- Allen
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