[Nottingham] ShefLug: Linux in Space

[Carl Ebrey]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, James Gibbon wrote:

>
> That sounds plausible - I believe that it's common to use 'mature',
> well-tested processors with no potential lurking surprises in
> safety-critical applications.  On a flight to Japan on a 747 five
> years ago I was invited into the cockpit for a chat with the crew.
> The co-pilot told me that the flight control and navigational
> systems ran on 286's.
>

... which is fine until the processors tell you to pull up to avoid that
cliff 10 seconds after you've hit it :)

Carl