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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Drop support for x86-32
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On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:17:20AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> Speaking as one of the x86 maintainers... we are currently deciding the
> cost/benefit tradeoff around removing i386 support.  I don't mean
> general x86-32 support, I mean i386 as opposed to i486, Pentium, and so on.

Random question.  As I recall the Space Shuttle and the International
Space Station was only using 80386's because they have to be hardened
against radiation/cosmic rays, as well as all of the other mechnical
and thermal stresses associated with being in a spacecraft.  Is there
any newer generation cpu's which are space-cerified at this point?

(Of course, I'm rather doubtful that NASA would ever be willing to use
Linux on something like the Curiosity Mars Rover, but I could imagine
Linux being used in a non-mission critcal system on the ISS....)

      	      		    	    	      - Ted
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