Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Comet Landing - a triumph for Forth in Hardware and Forth in Software From steering telescopes to steering Philae Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 20:31:36 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <9d07693c-9246-4dce-b1a0-71edcb95be3b@googlegroups.com> <27eae3a5-e450-4f7a-b1b9-1efe24d8f14b@googlegroups.com> <3b287971-bcf2-4a92-b445-eba2ea3b7e05@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: i+Urkql2cL38hhKqzSWEjg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:34553 On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 19:38:46 -0500, wrote: > On Friday, November 21, 2014 3:01:04 AM UTC-7, Mark Wills wrote: >> On Friday, 21 November 2014 03:29:53 UTC, Rod Pemberton wrote: >> > Also, why would they use RTX2000 series when radiation >> > hardened Intel Pentiums have been available since 1998? >> > >> Because the Pentium, compared to the RTX is a power hog. > > The idea of using a Pentium as a micro-controller on a spaceship is > pretty funny --- only Rod would think of that! Really? ... Why? It seems Intel chips have been used quite a bit for just that: http://www.cpushack.com/space-craft-cpu.html Rod Pemberton