--- Eric Dittman <dittman_at_dittman.net> wrote:
> > I think it's using sapphire as the substrate for the chip. ISTR, this is
> > done primarily in space applications where radiation hardening is
> > required.
> Didn't the 1802 microprocessor use this technology?
Yes. That's why it went out on the Voyager probes. V'ger is descended
from the COSMAC Elf.
-ethan
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Received on Thu Jul 26 2001 - 16:26:17 BST