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> "The Orion spacecraft, designed to carry astronauts to the moon in a future crewed mission, will carry four computers, each with two processors working in par
by klingonopera 7y ago
> "The Orion spacecraft, designed to carry astronauts to the moon in a future crewed mission, will carry four computers, each with two processors working in parallel, the results of which have to agree."
Wow, that's octuple redundancy? Nice!
Also, is it true, I once heard that in space they still use 486s, since these aren't suspect to cosmic radiation?
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoOlder silicon simply had larger circuit elements (less integrated) so could more easily survive a cosmic ray that scattered 1000 electrons across the circuit.