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- From: borden@sol.UVic.CA (Ross Borden)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: shuttle computers
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.204227.19785@sol.UVic.CA>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 20:42:27 GMT
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- >In article <Bxwy52.G3o.1@cs.cmu.edu> roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts) writes:
- >>Is it at all possible to reprogram the GPCs from the ground, or does it
- >>have to be done from onboard?
- >
- >They are routinely reloaded with different software from onboard storage
- >(tape, I think), but I don't think there is any remote-upload capability.
- >In an emergency, the astronauts can input patches manually -- NASA insisted
- >on this capability, over IBM's objections (the IBM folks say they considered
- >having the patch routine pop up a little flag saying "your warranty is void"
- >when it was used :-)) -- but that's not suitable for routine use.
- >--
- >MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- > -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
- >
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- Do the GPC's have hard drives? If so, how do they guard against
- shock, vibration, etc?
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