On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:11:09 +0100, Invisible wrote:

> Nobody uses computers that were designed 40 years ago.

That's not entirely true...

http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue132/92_Space_shuttle_techno.php

I had looked for a more current example, but I did recall that the 
shuttle flight computers were based on core memory technologies that were 
decades old.

Your statement above is kinda like saying "nobody uses hydraulic systems 
in avionics any more - it's all fly-by-wire now", which is also untrue.

Jim

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