🚀 go-pugleaf

Timothy P. Kelley (tkelley@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: 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?
: 

Well, NASA went to the moon with a computer that was the equivalent of a 
Commodore 64.  ANd I have heard that the space shuttle has not been 
upgraded very far past early 80's computers either... They prefer to have 
an old, slow reliable system, instead of a new, fast one that crashes.

Which makes me wonder...

	How would the Pentium's famous floating point bug affect the 
fight of the space shuttle? :-)   

				J.P.