We don't have any spacecraft using independent computers anything like
Traveller. As a single micro computer, is absurd, but so is extending
that concept as scalable fire what Traveller ships actually need. For
space craft not run from the ground, mainframe analogy isn't that far
fetched
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015, 18:27 Harold Hale
[Traveller_TNE] <> wrote:
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> As handwaves go, saying everything is included in the package with the
> "computer" isn't that horrible. It would however be interesting to see
> some numbers for the size of computer systems used in the Space Shuttle,
> the ISS, and some of the proposed spacecraft for the future, especially in
> terms of their volume in relation to the rest of the vessel/station.
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Traveller. As a single micro computer, is absurd, but so is extending
that concept as scalable fire what Traveller ships actually need. For
space craft not run from the ground, mainframe analogy isn't that far
fetched
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015, 18:27 Harold Hale
[Traveller_TNE] <> wrote:
>
>
> As handwaves go, saying everything is included in the package with the
> "computer" isn't that horrible. It would however be interesting to see
> some numbers for the size of computer systems used in the Space Shuttle,
> the ISS, and some of the proposed spacecraft for the future, especially in
> terms of their volume in relation to the rest of the vessel/station.
>
>
>