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Article #2135Re: Will P5 System Prices Drop Soon?
From: Leonard Schmitt
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 00:00
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In article <48oig8$d06@firehose.mindspring.com>, md@mindspring.com (Mike Donnellan) writes: |> noah@indirect.com (Noah Monsey) wrote: |> |> >Philip Mumford <mumford@mango> wrote: |> |> >> In article <48blp5$b5p@express.ior.com> "Lance M Hillier, Sr" <lhillier@on-ramp.ior.com> writes: |> >> |> >> 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." |> |> --Mike Donnellan |> Yes, the Space Station will be using 386SX-16 and 386SX-12 CPUs for "command and control" processing. I was told these CPUs are easier to space harden against radiation effects than the newer CPUs. -- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ | Leonard A. Schmitt | | McDonnell Douglas - Houston Division | | Phone: (713) 283-5619 | | FAX: (713) 244-4419 | | E-Mail: schmitt@pat.mdc.com | +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-+
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109e38,94e13287715530f7 X-Google-Attributes: gid109e38,public X-Google-Thread: 11196f,94e13287715530f7 X-Google-Attributes: gid11196f,public X-Google-Thread: 10a33e,94e13287715530f7 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a33e,public X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,94e13287715530f7 X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public X-Google-Thread: 1019d9,94e13287715530f7 X-Google-Attributes: gid1019d9,public X-Google-Thread: 110292,94e13287715530f7 X-Google-Attributes: gid110292,public From: schmitt@pat.mdc.com (Leonard Schmitt) Subject: Re: Will P5 System Prices Drop Soon? Date: 1995/11/21 Message-ID: <48sosk$u1q@cisu2.jsc.nasa.gov> X-Deja-AN: 119812100 distribution: world sender: schmitt@wink (Leonard Schmitt) references: <485the$ena@guitar.sound.net> <48blp5$b5p@express.ior.com> <MUMFORD.95Nov15135655@mango> <DI3CzG.CEG@lut.ac.uk> <48nqfm$gtc@globe.indirect.com> <48oig8$d06@firehose.mindspring.com> organization: MDSSC newsgroups: comp.sys.intel,alt.sys.pc-clone.dell,biz.marketplace.computers.pc-clone,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems