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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. 20mhz? by pi+eater · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Just goes to show how much can be accomplished with such a slow processor.

    Impressive!

    geeky stuff.. offensive stuff!

  2. windriver.com by hefa · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Was is only me who read windriver.com as Win Driver (not Wind River) dot com? Got freaked out there for a while... phew...