[Gllug] Linux involved with Beagle 2 project
Richard Jones
rich at annexia.org
Fri Dec 19 10:09:58 UTC 2003
Someone who works at ESA posted:
> > What OS does it use then?
> A proprietry setup written by the contractor - it is CPU is an 8-bit
> radiation hardened SPARC !
Not sure what that means. The SPARC architecture is 32 bits
(minimum), so I don't know if this refers to the external data bus, or
to some sort of bastardized SPARC. It's also not clear why writing an
OS and using an 8 bit chip would be useful. The Mars Pathfinder used
a 20 MHz i386, 128 MB of ordinary DRAM and VxWorks, source of that
infamous bug where the OS kept rebooting itself.
Rich.
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