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Re: starship-design: Hi, from a newbie
Toxicroach wrote:
>
> That's precisly my point. If and when we finally build a long term
> spaceship, the computers are going to be so intergal to the ship as to be
> indistinguishable. They will not have autonomous computers like PC's... the
> whole thing will be intergrated as to be a mash of small computers. I'm not
> a design experyt, but I think it would be wise to design the system to have
> a flaw-tolerant system, by which I mean that there won't be a single
> computer processor, or even a bank of them, that handles the mission
> critical stuff. <snip>
This is overkill and senseless as computers are not needed everywhere.
I expect a modular design using programmable logic of some kind
would be the backbone of the system. Mind you I still like the idea
of doing things by hand as the human brain is still the best redundant
system.
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