FUCK YEAH! Curiousity landed okay and sending images

Cleo · 2012-08-06, 06:15 PM

NASA’s Nuclear-Powered Mars Rover Curiosity Essentially Has The Same Brain As A Bondi Blue iMac G3

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Here’s an interesting little factoid for you. The Curiosity rover — which landed last night on Mars, remote controlled by a team of NASA scientists armed with MacBook Pros — runs on a RAD750 radiation-hardened single board computer.

This computer, in turn, is based on the IBM PowerPC 750 CPU, which Intel first introduce on November 10, 1997. This CPU was used by Apple in many computers in the late 1990s, including the original iMac.

As one insightful redditor notes: “Curiosity is essentially a 2-CPU Power Macintosh G3 with some nifty peripherals and one HELL of a UPS.”

Bill · 2012-08-06, 06:26 PM

oh noes, now we got two years of mac snobbery to look forward to. or more.

lets hope it's more.

the pic with alien is funny.

2012-08-06, 06:26 PM	#2
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	oh noes, now we got two years of mac snobbery to look forward to. or more. lets hope it's more. the pic with alien is funny.