Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:47:01 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Drop support for x86-32 |
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On 08/24/2012 01:25 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > 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 >
That is Curiosity (Mars Science Laboratory), not Spirit/Opportunity (Mars Exploration Rover).
However, Wikipedia lists the CPU on the MERs as a 20 MHz IBM RAD6000 CPU, running VxWorks.
If you want x86, there are definitely newer things than 386:
http://www.sandia.gov/media/rhp.htm
... that was almost 14 years ago now.
-hpa
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