Re: www.6502.org

[aarona@/REMOVE/localnet.com (Aaron)]

On Wed, 24 Nov 1999 08:18:07 GMT, sup8pdct@mail.cth.com.au wrote:

>On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:12:40, aarona@/REMOVE/localnet.com (Aaron) 
>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:15:19 +0100, Harald Albrecht
>> <harald@plt.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>> 
>> >Aaron wrote:
>> >> I don't know about 6502s in the Space Shuttle. However, did you know
>> >> that NASA tests the Space Shuttle's heat resistant tiles by simulating
>> >> re-entry with 200 overclocked Intel Pentium chips?
>> >
>> >From this I assume that the NASA uses the overclocked Intel P chips
>> >as the heat resistant tiles itself? That would explain why they
>> >overclock them, so that they make them heated tiles...
>> >
>> >But how do they do the re-entry thingy? Throwing the P chips
>> >from some sky tower?!
>> >
>> >Sorry -- couldn't resist this one.
>> >
>> >Harry "Hirsch" Albrecht
>> 
>> That certainly was a quick reply.
>> 
>> Atmospheric re-entry is no problem for Intel chips. They're used to
>> the stresses associated with being constantly replaced by newer P
>> chips in order to keep up with the latest Microsoft hogware.
>> 
>> If the P chips are used as heat resistant shuttle tiles, then I assume
>> the Shuttle must have an "INTEL OUTSIDE" logo on it?
>> 
>Did you hear about the latest space shuttle? It had the Intel slot 1 P
>chips all over it complete with the fans. It could hover using said 
>fans. Unfortunally, the weight of the power supply to drive those fans
>was greater then the lift provided by the fans and was doomed to 
>failler. Fell out of the sky like a lead ballon.
>
>James B
>
>
Hopefully it fell on Will Smith before he could make the sequel to the
Wild Wild West movie.