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What's Inside the Mars Rovers

Posted by michael on from the remote-root dept.

Captain Zion writes "Space.com has a story about the hardware and software of Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Basically, they're radiation-shielded, 20MHz PowerPC machines wirh 128Mb RAM and 256Mb of flash memory, running VxWorks. I wonder if I could make a nice firewall with one of these for my home network..."

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  1. 20 MHz is not enough by dimss · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    20 MHz? Not enough for firewall if you have something faster than modem. Really.

  2. Re:Wait a second... by AppyPappy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If they had used an Amiga, they wouldn't be having problems right now.

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