Curious why Mars rover has such a dinky camera and computer? - Future of Tech on NBCNews.com

Fri Aug 10 20:33:02 UTC 2012

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 04:23:04PM -0400, Lance F. Squire wrote:
> I'm just happy it's not just a wintel box. :P

For some reason I had thought the rovers were running linux, but
apparently they use vxworks.

I guess real time was useful.

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