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From: "Rod Pemberton" <buzzoff@nonamewhichexists.cmm>
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: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 14:52:55 -0500
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On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 14:30:19 -0500, <visualforth@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, November 21, 2014 8:31:52 PM UTC-5, Rod Pemberton wrote:
>> On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 19:38:46 -0500, <hughaguilar> 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
>>
> Thanks for this really interesting Link, Rod!
> Seems to be it needs an update about the comet mission, and seems to be  
> the RTX2000 was the cheapest of all these micros listed!

If you go to CPUShack's home page, they have an article
on the Philae mission and RTX2000 setup used.

For those who haven't seen CPUShack previously, it has a
large amount of pictures of CPUs, since they collect them,
along with some other information.  E.g., for Harris
Semiconductor they have 34 pictures of their processors:

http://www.cpushack.com/chippics/Harris/


Rod Pemberton