Spaceflight and Computers (geek porn)

From: Mike Shaw <mike_at_shawnuff.net>
Date: Mon Jan 5 15:56:15 2004

Has anyone seen any specs on what the current programs are using? Someone
said that the current mars rover was running Darwin on a PowerPC...which
I kind of doubt. Sounds like an urban legend that evolved from that
picture of the powerbooks in mission control.

-Mike

On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 13:41:24 -0800 Kirk Davis <kdavis_at_ndx.net> wrote:
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>Mars rover made me curious about the computers used in older
>missions. Found this cool link giving a detailed history:
>
>http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/computers/contents.html
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>Kirk
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Received on Mon Jan 05 2004 - 15:56:15 GMT

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