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| Computers on board the Space Shuttle |
denberg |
08/30/03 |
Someone told me that the computers on board the space shuttle are actually less sophisticated than the ones you can buy in the shops today because they have to be shielded from radiation, and the process of so doing takes so long that they are obsolescent by the time they are used on board the shuttle.
True or False?
Sorry if that paragraph sounds a bit garbled - the person who told me it didn't really understand it himself. Can anyone out there make any sense of it? Of course I know that all PCs are out of date from the moment they hit the shops but I would have thought that computers in the shuttle, if anywhere, would be state of the art.
Many thanks,
Paul,
London UK. |
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