Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!udel!mvac23!thomas
From: thomas@mvac23.UUCP (Thomas Lapp)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: USSR Microcomputers: How far behind US?
Message-ID: <27.UUL1.3#5131@mvac23.UUCP>
Date: 16 May 89 00:09:10 GMT
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Reply-To: mvac23!thomas@udel.edu
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> #If memory serves (small pun here) the Shuttle's main computer has
> #all of 64KB DRAM.  The reason?  The Shuttle was designed in the 
> [....]
> #
> I thought the computers on the shuttles used ferrite core RAMs.

    Please see sci.space.shuttle for more in-depth information on the
    space shuttles computers.  Very recently there has been discussion
    on exactly the hardware and software used.  If you site does not
    expire news too quickly, and you aren't reading it now, I think you
    can still find the postings.  They are that new.
                         - tom
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