Re: www.6502.org

[sup8pdct@mail.cth.com.au]

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