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NohPhD t1_jbf672y wrote

It’s a 15 y/o spacecraft… Sounds like it’s running Windows 3.1

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Lendyman t1_jbfjb1p wrote

15 years ago would be Windows XP! Or Vista. Oof.

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jimi15 t1_jbg4wuz wrote

Government institutions are always 10 years behind everyone else tech wise. I can believe it.

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Simon_Drake t1_jc396hu wrote

The New Horizons probe sent out to Pluto had the same CPU as the PlayStation One. Not a CPU of similar performance or using that as a benchmark for comparison, actually the same CPU model used in the PS1. When it launched the PS2 was already out but they like to finalise the hardware years in advance and run extensive tests rather than using cutting edge circuitry.

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