On Sun, 12 May 2013 23:08:52 -0400, Kenneth wrote:

> Doctor John <j.g### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/10/iss-linux/
>> --
> 
> I thought the space station's computer memories were still using ferrite
> cores.
> :-P  I seem to remember reading something like that once--maybe for the
> Space Shuttle.

IIRC, the earlier shuttles were like that, and they had laptops to track 
telemetry because the on-board computers couldn't handle the task well 
enough.

Jim

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