On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:35:29 -0700 (PDT), Michael Wallis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"An Oregon amateur rocket group, the Portland State >Aerospace Society, plans to launch a Linux-powered >rocket weighing 12 pounds to 55,000 feet at a speed of >Mach 3 in September, Wired News reports. The rocket's >onboard computer is an AMD 586 processor and a Jumptec >MOPS/520 PC/104+ board along with a power supply, a >PCMCIA card carrier for an 802.11b card to transmit >data to the ground, and a carrier board for a 128-MB >CompactFlash card for long-term storage. The flight >computer runs a stripped-down version of Debian Linux, >with the 2.4.20 Linux kernel. The group will present a >paper on the use of free software in rocketry at Usenix >2003. The real question is whether their network card >will survive 10 seconds at 15 Gs!" That's *a* question, and it's trivial. Another question is, what will this gadget be doing? -R -- "We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." -- Robert Wilensky, UC Berkeley _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
