Perhaps they're Miltary-spec 386s, with higher reliability etc.? I remember
reading the computers on the space shuttle were fairly low-tech, mostly
having to do with when the spec's on the shuttle systems were completed etc.
At 12:37 PM 6/24/99 +0400, you wrote:
>On 1999-06-22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> >Hallo !
> >Did you know that the central computer of the International Space
> >Station ISS as a 386 as main processor? This is really survivor in
> >my opinion...
> >see http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/archives/sts-96/index_ov.
> >html
> >--
> >Gunnar Th�le
>
>There was a big discussion in alt.folklore.computers about the computers
>that NASA uses. It was very interesting, but unfortunetly I don't remember
>much of it. Threads in that usenet group tend to be supper long, and I
>frequently don't have time to read all of it.
>
>Chad A. Fernandez
>Battle Creek, MI
>Net-Tamer V 1.12 Beta - Test Drive
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