Space station computers crash

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NASA technicians have managed to restore
communications with the International Space
Station (ISS) after the failure of three
command and control computers on board the
craft.

. . .

NASA hasn't said what the problem machines are
but all a strong body of evidence points to IBM
Thinkpads featuring older Intel processors, when
the project began around two years ago these
machines used 486 chips.

The Register

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), April 26, 2001


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