[Cialug] Fast 486's and jumbo shrimp (was: Which Distro is best?)

[Nathan Stien]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would think that an application such as being used on the space shuttle
> would require an obscene amount of testing and validity checking, and that
> pretty much everything on a CPU needs to be tested, even features not in
> use, and that the code needs to be heavily tested, etc. Changing the CPUs,
> even to the extent of adding a few features is probably problematic, and an
> amazing amount of work.
>
> I would also think that the power consumption, heat output, etc are all
> accounted for and changing that would cause a cascade of other things
> needing modified or tests.
>

I must agree with Jeff here.  The old computers are there with good reason.
Simpler chips -> far easier verification.
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