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Re:NASA's Perseverance rover sends stunning images by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @03:21AM (#26325965)
Especially since hardware is generally designed for speed and performance instead of reliability. Didn't NASA use a lot of 486es for a long time for this same reason?

But yeah. It's not a problem if a CPU gets buggy or dies in a datacenter with 10K similar ones, because of redundancy and a completely different approach to software workloads nowadays. I mean a lot of production systems barely even care what CPU they run on.

And ~200 Mhz is still powerful enough for a LOT of applications.

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Re:NASA's Perseverance rover sends stunning images by darkr on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @08:02AM (#26327756)
> Didn't NASA use a lot of 486es for a long time for this same reason?

They were also using Amigas until ~2006 for various duties, including launch control.

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