[Coco] Jingo - Jango - Mars

[Roger Taylor]

At 11:51 AM 1/15/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Now theres a thought.  I've been told that for a while at least, the
>shuttle computers were 6809 machines running os9.  Can anyone
>confirm/deny that?

Oh, "GIME" a break.

That stemmed probably from a short comment somewhere about some form of 
OS-9 being used somewhere on the shuttle, and I have never even found proof 
in any of it.  The shuttle is loaded with high-speed computer equipment, 
and I highly doubt are beloved 6809 plays any major response-intensive 
role.  If OS-9 ran the coffeemaker, I would be totally surprised.

Ofcourse, there's a sad joke in all of this... maybe the reason 2 of our 
shuttles blew up is because they had the IRQs hard-wired like a lot of 
OS-9/MPI users did.  Maybe someone who had done that hack before had 
crippled the shuttle's OS-9 by running a wire directly into the CPU's IRQ 
line?  I dunno.  :)


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Roger Taylor