Re: RE: starship-design: unmanned missions

[KellySt@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/11/98 4:39:07 PM, lparker@cacaphony.net wrote:

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>> Heh, the PC you are sending e-mail with might possibly be the more
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>> powerful of the two in that comparison.  But that's a quibble.
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>I think they have upgraded the shuttle's computers in the last few years, so
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>the PC may no longer be more powerful. Either Kelly or Kevin posted
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>something about it re a similar comment I made last year. I do know that
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>when they were originally putting together the specifications for the Space
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>Station Freedom's computer systems they were PCs running LINUX (they wanted
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>a clear, commercially available upgrade path). I'm not sure what the
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>International Space Station ended up with. Anybody know?


The shuttle computers were upgraded.  Now I think they have megabytes of ram
instead of a couple of kilobytes, but I think they are still dwarfed by
current laptops and PC's.