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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: OS in the shuttle (was Re: What kind of computers are in the shuttle?)
- Message-ID: <BxvrJw.3J2@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:55:03 GMT
- References: <BxKo4I.F9r.1@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Nov14.020910.15122@access.usask.ca> <BxqD9s.ApL@zoo.toronto.edu> <1992Nov16.233628.29854@r-node.gts.org>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <1992Nov16.233628.29854@r-node.gts.org> marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Admin) writes:
- >>... the specs are stringent for a reason. MSDOS doesn't qualify. :-)
- >
- > Speaking of MSDOS...NAWT!...what do they use? An in-house
- >developed OS? Some derived from existing OS's?
-
- It's a custom-cooked system that was (I think) done from scratch. It may
- well have borrowed bits and pieces from earlier avionics systems using
- the same processors.
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- 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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