[geeks] Oldest OS Still Developed

Mike Hebel nimitz at nimitzbrood.com
Wed Oct 18 14:32:54 CDT 2006


Thus spake Bill Bradford:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:56:06PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> Do the space shuttle computers have any kind of OS?
>
> Yes, and I have the manuals. 8-)
>
> It appears that a lot of the ISS is run by a UNIX of some sort running

Low weight, low power consumption, fairly fast, stable OS...makes all
sorts of sense to me.  :-)

Mike Hebel
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"For space is wide and good friends are too few!" - Leslie Fish, "Sam Jones"



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