[Coco] Jingo - Jango - Mars

[John Collyer]

Yes, "GIME" shelter from all these "RUMORS"

John Collyer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Taylor" <rtaylor at bayou.com>
To: <gene.heskett at verizon.net>; "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts"
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Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Jingo - Jango - Mars


> At 11:51 AM 1/15/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> >Now theres a thought.  I've been told that for a while at least, the
> >shuttle computers were 6809 machines running os9.  Can anyone
> >confirm/deny that?
>
> Oh, "GIME" a break.
>
> That stemmed probably from a short comment somewhere about some form of
> OS-9 being used somewhere on the shuttle, and I have never even found
proof
> in any of it.  The shuttle is loaded with high-speed computer equipment,
> and I highly doubt are beloved 6809 plays any major response-intensive
> role.  If OS-9 ran the coffeemaker, I would be totally surprised.
>
> Ofcourse, there's a sad joke in all of this... maybe the reason 2 of our
> shuttles blew up is because they had the IRQs hard-wired like a lot of
> OS-9/MPI users did.  Maybe someone who had done that hack before had
> crippled the shuttle's OS-9 by running a wire directly into the CPU's IRQ
> line?  I dunno.  :)
>
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