From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 7 9:22:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wrs.com (unknown-1-11.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7875F37B41E for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 09:22:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@[147.11.46.201]) by mail.wrs.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA25832; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 09:22:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200109071303.f87D3ur05167@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 09:22:00 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: "Brian J. McGovern" Subject: Re: NASA's Operating system? Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 07-Sep-01 Brian J. McGovern wrote: > Flight control? Heh, the Shuttle uses systems probably 30 years old. I can't > believe the ISS would be far ahead of it ;) ISS is using NT according to the logs and having problems with Exchange. :) So it can't be but so old. They also have wireless networking on the ISS according to the logs. > As far as hardware, if I remember, the shuttle has 5 interconnected special > purpose systems to do flight management. The interface and displays are > cryptic, and actually quite entertaining trying to figure out how to read > (IN 75 MOD 7 ENT, to turn on the lights, anyone?). Didn't they just replace the displays at least with 4 LCD displays that are supposed to be more intuitive, etc.? -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message