Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Drop support for x86-32 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Date | Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:40:12 -0700 |
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Heh... I just read about Android Nexus One phones being used as satellite controllers.
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:17:20AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> >> Speaking as one of the x86 maintainers... we are currently deciding >the >> cost/benefit tradeoff around removing i386 support. I don't mean >> general x86-32 support, I mean i386 as opposed to i486, Pentium, and >so on. > >Random question. As I recall the Space Shuttle and the International >Space Station was only using 80386's because they have to be hardened >against radiation/cosmic rays, as well as all of the other mechnical >and thermal stresses associated with being in a spacecraft. Is there >any newer generation cpu's which are space-cerified at this point? > >(Of course, I'm rather doubtful that NASA would ever be willing to use >Linux on something like the Curiosity Mars Rover, but I could imagine >Linux being used in a non-mission critcal system on the ISS....) > > - Ted
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