> On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Ben Ford wrote:
> My understanding is that astronauts going up on the shuttle take turns
> bringing a laptop computer so they have actual computing power available
> to them.
actually the mission related laptops are thinkpads running win95...
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=213
the ISS also has some running solaris x86...
all sorts of other computers have flow as parts of payloads...
> The shuttle computer is not adequate for many tasks because it
> is something like 30 years old, but that's what they use because it is
> certified. So somebody has to bring along a non-certified system in their
> "personal effects" allowance to get real work done :}
avionics packages onboard the suttle have been significantly updated,
since first flight(understatement). atlantis was the first to fly with the
glass cockpit sometime in early 2000.
joelja
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