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1. Uli Kusterer (Not a kitten) (uliwitness@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 07:21:42 JST Uli Kusterer (Not a kitten)

   Hmmm... we might have a chance of building old Macs from new parts: "The 68040 processor is used in the flight management computers (FMC) aboard many Boeing 737 aircraft, including all Next Generation and MAX models."

   #retroComputing

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68040#Usage

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 07:21:29 JST minute

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     • Michael Engel

     @me_ @uliwitness serious question: what's the reasoning behind using these in contemporary aircraft? (also they get quite hot vs 68060?)

   • Michael Engel (me_@sueden.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 07:21:41 JST Michael Engel

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     @uliwitness Probably the planes' most reliable components...

   • 🇺🇦 haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 07:38:07 JST 🇺🇦 haxadecimal

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     • minute
     • Michael Engel

     @mntmn @me_ @uliwitness Same reason all production aerospace equipment uses computers far from the bleeding edge. It was engineered, tested, and certified using chips then reasonably current and well qualified. The cost to do all that again for a new design would be immense. It will have to be done eventually, and maybe they've even started on it, but it takes a _lomg_ time. And by the time a new system is deployed, the new components its design uses will again be old.