May 19th 08, 12:51 AM
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Data from Columbia 2/1/03 massacre survived... Sounds likeanother govmint covup to me!
On May 10, 12:41*pm, (Al Dykes) wrote:
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James Of Tucson wrote:
On May 9, 6:36 pm, "Jorge R. Frank" wrote:
DOS was never the OS for the space shuttle.
When MS-DOS was on the table, the choice was made to use 68000 chips
and the OS-9 operating system instead.
But the avionics systems were never based on consumer hardware or
software at all.
The avionics are distributed among hundreds (about 300) separate
specialized control units. *These were designed from the ground up
specifically for the Shuttle. * These control units are interfaced to
"General Purpose Computers".
At one time, the GPCs were based on a Motorola 68000, but a special
one that was designed for the space program.
That one ran OS-9. *It was actually the second generation GPC, in
As someone else posted in more detail, the main computers were
off-the-shelf IBM hardware. See
*http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ex...e_shuttle.html
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yeah, and IBM computers = **** computers. no more need be said!
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