I had to buy a very old laptop because the software for configuring Motorola sabers depended on the cpu for timing communication with the radio during the flash

I had to buy a very old laptop because the software for configuring Motorola sabers depended on the cpu for timing communication with the radio during the flash process. People have bricked their radios trying to emulate old clock speeds. I'd hope that they'd have a more robust protocol in expensive aerospace platforms, but I wouldn't be surprised if that wasn't the case.