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Old January 23rd 04, 11:15 AM
Nils O. Selåsdal
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Default Rover brains?

In article , 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)?

They run vxWorks,on a 32 bit RAD6000 CPU iirc(Not an ordinary cpu..)

http://www.windriver.com/marsrover/

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