Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Core memory
Message-ID: <11567@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 19 Jul 88 15:01:51 GMT
References: <1486@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <1010@garth.UUCP> <458@buengc.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
Lines: 17

In article <458@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:

| You are kidding, aren't you?  core is the lowest-density recording
| medium since paper tape.  The shuttle would use bubbles for nonvolatile,
| read-write memory, I would hope.  Even EEROM, which must be in the
| system somewhere...  Not even NASA would be 15 years behind on
| technology... ;-)

  Actually I believe that core is more reliable in a normal
environment, much more reliable when exposed to radiation. I suspect
that they would be potted for vibration protection. What is the most
reliable solution and what is cost effective for the mass market are
often not the same.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
  {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me