🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 20 Nov 1995 03:35:26 GMT, md@mindspring.com (Mike Donnellan) wrote:

>noah@indirect.com (Noah Monsey) wrote:

>>> I wonder if there are any ongoing military projects which were designed using
>>> 486, 386 or even 286 processors? 

>Dunno if it's strictly military by your standards, but the space 
>station  specs reportedly include 386SX-based computers to support
>many functions, according to a recent article in IEEE Spectrum (I 
>believe it was, at any rate if my memory isn't failing any more than 
>usual; magazine already thrown out).  See the issue featuring 
>"megaprojects."

OK everybody - we're going to sell all our 386sx and dx chips and
motherboards to the army and NASA for millions.
Why didn't I think of this sooner?


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