Interesting approach. Virtual machines instead of hardened hardware. I would guess it is going to be soft real time are a result. With jitter on the level of hundreds of microseconds... Scary.
Not sure what could be an alternative. Perhaps a C compiler that generates radiation hardened executable code?
Posted Sep 19, 2013 1:30 UTC (Thu) by MrMorden (subscriber, #62781)
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Physical machines could still handle the RT while coming in under the cost and power budget of a rad-hardened processor. So that just leaves the mass budget.
Besides which, there's no way you could get Kerbal to run on a Rad750. (Sorry; had to get a KSP reference in this thread somehow.)
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Posted Sep 19, 2013 1:50 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
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But you could get a Kerbal to run a Rad750 in the test environment :D . Poor Jebediah :( .
