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On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:30:53 +0200, Øyvind Røtvold wrote:

> Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> writes:
> 
> 
>> You'd be surprised to know which CPUs are used when sending rockets to
>> the moon: 8080-CPUs for the reasons you mentioned.
>>
>> Maybe it's different in newer rockets, but it's true for the first
>> ones.
> 
> No, "The Intel 8080 .... Introduced in April 1974", way to late for the
> first ones.

https://www.sandia.gov/media/rhp.htm

The 8080 doesn't seem likely. In the early '80s I worked with the TI9900 
because a radiation hardened processor was needed and TI had one. I don't 
think Intel itself was interested in rad-hard devices. It's possible the 
Sandia designed 8085 or 8051 devices were used.