Re: Some of Ron's Code?


Jim wrote:
We are talking
K's here, not M's or G's.
Sorry to reply to my own post. Wikipedia says that the shuttle
computers have 424K, with no hard disk (and process 400K instructions
per sec).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle

And anyone who asks "Why don't they just upgrade?" has never worked for
a contractor for the military or NASA. :-)

Jim

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