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ck2today at 2:24 PM0 repliesview on HN

if I remember correctly the space shuttle had four computers that all did the same processing and a fifth that decided what was the correct answer if they all didn't match or some went down

can't find a wikipedia article on it but the times had an article in 1981

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/10/us/computers-to-have-the-...

apparently the 5th was standby, not the decider