Spaceflight and Computers (geek porn)

From: J.C. Wren <jcwren_at_jcwren.com>
Date: Mon Jan 5 16:17:01 2004

No, it's running vxWorks on a RAD6000.

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http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/18_9/telecom-it-infrastructure/21333-1.html
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Expensive little puppies, too.

        --jc

On Monday 05 January 2004 16:56 pm, Mike Shaw wrote:
> 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:
> >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
> >
> >Kirk
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