Uhh...i heard something about extensive use of JAVA. I just hope it
wasn't in rover itself. It's nice for rebootable web-based systems but i
can't stand the tought of bloated, buggy code running inside the poor rover.

Somehow, I'm afraid rover "bluescreened" after bloatware choked on
something that was impossible to account for. Let's hope they can
"reboot" the thing from EPROM and start again...


hrtbreak wrote:
JPL has some limited information about the Mars rover electronics and the
VME bus:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/missi...er_brains.html

What kind of CPU and O/S are the rovers using (or do I really want to know)?

JJ Robinson II
Houston, TX
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