Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!karl
From: karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: space shuttle computers
Summary: they are not Xenix
Message-ID: <3078@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 10 Dec 88 15:34:31 GMT
References: <102@epsilon.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <102@epsilon.UUCP>, jlg@epsilon.UUCP (My account ) writes:
> A side note to anyone purchasing UNIX/XENIX for 286 and 386. The spec
> being used by NASA for the space shuttle computers is (are you ready?)
> S.C.O. XENIX 386. 

Although Xenix may have been used to control an experiment or something,
and NASA and contractors may use Xenix in support of certain Space Shuttle
activities, I assure you that the four onboard IBM AP-101 computers that 
control the shuttle's flight do not run Xenix or Unix nor are they 386es.
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