Re: TI-H: (OT about Grant's 486/68000)
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Re: TI-H: (OT about Grant's 486/68000)
sheilding is heavy and on a spacestation every kilogram is vital.
it's not cheap to send stuff up in space..
and if the spacestation can manage on a 386, then there is no need to have
anything more. And what do you think the scientists need there thinkpads for?
just some writeing in word or something, they are not up there to play quake or
something. if they need computing power, they just beam down the data to nasa,
and they can do the computations. I was suprised to hear that they even had
pentiums. but then again, a pentium notebook is probablyy smaller and lighter
than old 486 notebooks, and if they can handle the radiation, so why not?
//Olle
J D wrote:
>
> Oh, come on. It's just a matter of shielding the damn things. I'm sure a
> PII can't be that much harder to shield than a Pentium or a 386.
> I think it's just plain, blind bureaucracy. Pentium IIs and whatever else
> haven't been past some joker's desk yet, and the papers for whatever haven't
> been filed, so, SORRY astronauts, no soup for you.
>
> >From: Olle Hedman <oh@hem.passagen.se>
> >Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
> >To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
> >Subject: Re: TI-H: (OT about Grant's 486/68000)
> >Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:33:33 +0200
> >
> >
> > > See, that doesn't make any sense. You're right, Cavan, they do - then
> >they
> > > go and use shit processors in their applications. Do you know what the
> >CPU
> > > of the ISS (International Space Station) is? A 386!!!!! NO SHIT! And
> >the
> > > laptops they're using are all old Pentium-class Thinkpads!! They do
> >this in
> > > the name of reliability. But, um, guys - WHY on EARTH should a Pentium
> >be
> > > more reliable than a Pentium II - or a K6-2/3 for that matter!?
> >
> >you know why? Cosmic radiation. a to complex chip wouldn't stand it up
> >there.
> >even pentiums is borderline..
> >
> >//Olle
> >
> >
>
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