Amiga!
I am pretty sure that they are still using Amigas! See: I thought that my life as a programmer was over but I can see that I can make a comeback!!! Fortran 77, Pascal, Cobol, ....ancient languages are...
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Well I suppose that depends on who you buy from. You ca avoid this and get guarantees from the manufacturer. Of course, you pay for it
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Yeah we use alot of the LEONs (Germany). Right now I'm developing on a Leon3FT. Ok the FPGA runs at around 20Mhz, which is very slow compared to a desktop processor, but with the amount of exploitable...
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As for the technical issues of space applications, there are more than just radiation. The largest one is not really technical but legal - chip qualification. The agency has to verify that the chip is...
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Wow, you were able to get all that from a single picture pertaining a situation about a field you have no remote contact or knowledge of?
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It has probably more to do with a centralized funding. The agency gets money for building some equipment, usually a lot more than they really need, build it and once it works their job is finished. No...
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Yes, well, having watched various technology forums (especially Android phone forums, as of late) I'm amused at the people griping at software bugs. Yeah, we have our nice shiny fancy equipment, but...
View ArticleRE: So tired
easy way around that is to click the "print article" button on most sites. It formats the entire article on one page, usually 90% reduction in advertising (or a complete reduction). It's the only way...
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Heck, they could call me! I started with FORTRAN, Pascal, COBOL and BASIC. And some assembler. That would make for a fun job...
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This has to change. Using outdated technology is simply not going to cut it when we run into the zerg in a few hundred years.
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NASA chose Linux to run the control computers for the New Horizons probe (Pluto mission) for exactly that reason: Given that their control software would have to communicate with a space probe 9+ years...
View ArticleI wonder if this guy still works there
He has a cup full of coffee next to mission critical computer systems and it looks like he's having a nap in his chair, while his coworker to the left is frantically typing something on the keyboard...
View ArticleRE: So tired
Seconded. I don't even bother reading articles that are chopped up that way anymore. What's the point of that? More clicks, more page loads, and thus more hits or something? There's no reason for it;...
View ArticleRE[2]: Comment by cb88
This, and it also demonstrates the generational effects of computing... I'm in the sciences and MANY of our programs are written in FORTRAN-77 (and many of the professors only know FORTRAN-77, and...
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Maybe this is what you meant, but I would say that instead of looking for fortran programmers, they should look for good programmers who are willing and able to learn fortran. I know that there are...
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The last quote of the article I find offensive. "Right now it takes a dozen and a half people to run the building and all of its systems - our vision is that one day we could control the entire...
View ArticleRE: So tired
Yeah, software bloat should be punished by death penalty, but well... That'd be hard to apply the sentence in practice in a world where doing things in a profitable way is more important than doing...
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Leon3FT 32bit Sparc processors have redundancy and radiation tolerance built in... open source hardware design ftw.... Technically the latest Leon4 isn't open yet hopefully it will be though. The Leon4...
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