10 Oct
2003
10 Oct
'03
21:19
The Shuttle was designed in the 1970's, at roughly the same time Intel was designing the 8080 and 8086 chips. However, I believe that the Shuttle fleet's electronics have been upgraded. That doesn't mean
The problems with all these elder CPUs and chips are. 1. Most of them are out of production for decades, thus no replacements available. 2. Reliability of a chip is decreasing exponentially with the time, due to electromigration, diffusion and other internal processes. 3. Electronic chips are constantly aging, no matter if they used on unused. Just my $0.02 Alex ------------------- they
aren't chock full of 8086 and even older chips in what are essentially embedded applications.