One of most remarkable feats in computer science ?

Chris.B wrote:
"Michael A. Covington" wrote in message ...

It was probably an ambitious feat, but I don't think it's "one of the most
remarkable feats in modern computer science." People do ambitious things
with computers a lot of the time.

Michael A. Covington



Mere child's play compared with reprogramming a Nokia 9800s off the
dish I should think. But then Nokia hasn't discovered the internet
yet. The 9800s is still a bit wobbly on its legs but out of immediate
danger. I just hope it doesn't try to crash into Jupiter!

Chris.B
The other thing to remember is that the systems are not modern embedded
processors, which are design for this kind of thing, but code written on
1970's flight qualified processors. They have no FLASH roms, or modern
static RAMS. Offline data storage isn't a convenient gigabyte hard-disk
- its a bloody tape recorder. Data is transmitted at rates that make
modem access look like ethernet.

No, hats off to them, Galileo presented unique problems, some due to
failure admittedly.

It was a bloody clever trick.

Steve