From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 7 10:49:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBD5037B406 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 10:49:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4D36E18EB; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 10:50:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4472B18EA; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 10:50:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 10:50:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: "Brian J. McGovern" Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NASA's Operating system? In-Reply-To: <200109071303.f87D3ur05167@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 > 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?). > > If anyone is actually interested, I can try to dig out some docs I have at > home, and get a more accurate description of the system. I ran across an article somewhere that talks about upgrading the Columbia's computers, in preperation to do the rest. They're all digital these days with touch screens. Unluckily I can't find that link either! :( But it was in relation to the next Hubble upgrade.... Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message