[geeks] Oldest OS Still Developed

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 @ 14:31 -0500, Bill Bradford said:

> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:56:06PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > Do the space shuttle computers have any kind of OS?
> 
> Yes, and I have the manuals. 8-)

You have manuals for the AP-101 systems?

Which generation?  1972 or 1984?

The '72 models were core memory, while the '84 models are faster and had
core replaced by battery backed RAM.

> It appears that a lot of the ISS is run by a UNIX of some sort running
> on a Thinkpad.

You'd never catch me on it if it were.

Somehow I doubt that.

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