Posts by Tromos 1188 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Sep 2013
It is surely obvious that not everybody on the list of numbers has agreed to be contacted, and of those that have, most have been conned by small print clauses when signing up for something totally unrelated to PPI, accident claims, boiler insurance or whatever.
A short spell in jail plus a ruinous fine just might make the number peddlers seek another way to make a living.
I would imagine the space probe doesn't have a Fortran runtime on board, that particular requirement being for the command and control and received data processing back here. The assembler would be for the probe itself and I would think anyone suitable for the job would already have worked with several different assembly languages and would take adding another in their stride.
I'd only want 2, maybe 3, so can't make use of this service, but I suspect that what I'd like would sell many times the minimum quantity. Simply this - get all the connections on just one side. Doesn't matter if it is a little larger, the effective 'footprint' of the device will be smaller if USB, HDMI, power, etc. didn't all come out of different sides.
I used Cray designed kit throughout most of my early career, loads of CDC 6000 and 7000 series and then Cyber17x. Managed to use (and sit on!) not one but two Cray-1s. Always loved the clean and elegant machine instruction sets. That's probably why I much preferred the Signetics and Motorola microprocessors to the Zilog and Intel ones when the personal computer revolution started.
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