Russ Blakeman wrote:
> But among 8-inch floppy drives and other unspecified
> items, NASA is buying up all the 8086 microprocessors
> they can lay their hands on, specifically, to keep the
> Space Shuttle flying. Not the more common 8088, of
> course, but its 16-bit big brother.
That explains why NASA can't get a real space program
going ... Intel is behind it!
Anyway they would need space/radiation rated chips,
not the garden variety stuff.
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Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
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Received on Mon May 13 2002 - 09:31:07 BST