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Houston, We Have a Software Problem

Posted by chrisd on from the nasa.sourceforge.net dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The computer system that launches the Space Shuttle is an old, but important, computer system. It is built from mid 70's technology and features SSI chips like 7400's...which are getting hard to find. It has 64k of memory and no room to repair any software bugs. NASA started the CLCS project in 1996 which uses state of the art computer languages, OO methodologies, and hardware. Everything that you could actually hire people off the street for. However, NASA is in a budget crunch with the Space Station cost overruns. It is looking to trim costs to keep the Space Station going. There are stories about CLCS getting cancelled here and these guys say its already cancelled."

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  1. Old 7400s'? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The G4 is [i]that[/i] old?! No wonder it's slow.

  2. Computers and aerospace are DEAD qjkx by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Didn't you listen? There are NO jobs there anymore. Give it up. Nothing will ever change. Just become nurses to help old people in nursing homes and watch college football. Technology is dead and will never come back. OP.

  3. could any one of you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    bleeding heart liberals take the time to whip up some thing for NASA? Get the schematics. Build a parallel system, try it, if it fails, build another one. Surely we can emulate old technology with what we have now?

    Give some thing back to NASA for a change instead of downloading all the pretty Hubble pictures for free all the time.