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SubjectRe: Drop support for x86-32
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 04:06:42PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 03:58:56PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>
> > BTW, it turns out I was wrong about Linux being used on Mars.
> > Apparently Linux was used on the Mars Global Surveyor, as well as the
> > Sprit and Opportunity rovers
>
> citation? My recollection was that they were running VxWorks.

... on a "a radiation-hardened version of the IBM PowerPC 750." So no
x86.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2408127,00.asp

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.


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