On 1999-06-24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>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.
Yes, they are Mil-spec. They are "hardened" against EMFs or something like
that.
I recall something about the cache in 486's causes
problems in space too, but I can't remember why. Since most 386's don't
have cache, they don't have the problem.
Chad A. Fernandez
Battle Creek, MI
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