[sarex] Re: ISS COMPUTERS NOT UP TO DATE

Joe Fitzgerald jfitzgerald at alum.wpi.edu
Wed Nov 8 11:32:06 PST 2006


Victor Springer wrote:
> I remember reading a story several years
> that explained that the shuttle computers still are 
> 486-based.

Actually, the '486 was not even a gleam in Intel's eye back in the 70's 
when the computers on the Shuttle were specified.

Read the story at http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Part1.html

It's good stuff!

-Joe KM1P





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