In his lecture, David Parnas was not mounting a political argument against the Strategic Defence Initiative, but illustrating why, technically, it was not feasible. Any errors of interpretation in this document are of course my own, and readers with a more substantial interest are advised to read David Parnas’s own collected essays on the topic, which are now available online. For that reason, it seems worthwhile to re-present them here, a generation later. At the time I found him highly persuasive, and nothing since, to my knowledge, has invalidated his technical arguments. Parnas seemed uniquely qualified to report on the Strategic Defence Initiative (S.D.I.). The notes to follow are my best attempt in 1986 as a non-specialist to outline a lecture given by David Lorge Parnas, a Canadian computer engineer and professor who spent years working on American defense projects.
Judge for yourself how relevant it is to Star Wars II, millennium edition. Below is a computer engineer's report on the technical viability of Star Wars I, circa 1986.
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Like Mordor's ninth ring of power*, hidden forever deep in a dark river beneath a mountain, some Gollum was sure to chance upon it, and once set free it would again corrupt all who carelessly picked it up ( *J.R. nightmares, we knew that no toy of destruction, once conceived of, has ever been left to rest. But in our heart of hearts, in our 3 a.m. We pretended that flower power was winning. We kidded ourselves for a while that Star Wars had gone away.
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