RE: How big is Euphoria clan
That's all those sattelites need..
I should know, as the first assignement newbies had
down at L&H was to design a sattelite wich would be
launched in 2012 (well, the winning design
actually)...
So I know what I'm talking about.
The CPU has to do a given set of core functions, if
the CPU is fast enough for those functions, that's
enough.
The thing it must do is always the same, and upgrading
some sattelites to faster CPUs will destroy the entire
system.
Mike The Spike
--- Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> wrote:
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> On 22 Mar 2001, at 15:37, Alvin Koffman wrote:
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> > I remember reading about the mars rover and the 16
> bit bus it has
> > thinking "you mean they spent hundreds of millions
> on this thing and
> > only put a #@%&ing 286 on it?"
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> Yup, that's cause the lines on the cpu were wide
> enough to absorb gamma
> radiation and still function. After the 286, line
> width and spacing shrank,
> insulators got thinner, and the radiation was able
> to knock enough electrons
> around to cause problems. There is a NASA brief
> floating around on this
> somewhere. I think i remember the Hubble telescope
> used an 8086 at the
> beginning, and was upgraded to a 286. I wouldn't be
> surprised if the shuttle
> uses only 286's too.
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> Kat
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