I think that if you listed what you wanted this "common" computer to do,
the list would be different for 90% of the people on this list.
I car about keeping an accurate real time PVAT ie position velocity,
attitude and to a lesser extent time.
Keeping this across all flight regimes at all times so one can run some
simple PID loops to do guidance and control.
Others would want reliable recovery deployment, yet others would want it
to manage cameras....
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Chris Jones <clj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12/24/15 7:20 PM, Monroe L. King Jr. wrote:
The software is the hub IMO :)
The rest of the system is spokes, wheels and tires.
Of course, it all depends on where you're sitting. I still vividly
recall (more than 20 years later) having the power system guy explaining
the power system on a large (designed for over 1000 processors, we
tested around 250) multiprocessor system to me, a software guy who had
to interface with it. He drew a schematic that went into great detail
on the front panel LEDs, the built-in UPS, and the rest of the power
system. The remainder of the system (hundreds of processors, maybe
thousands of disk drives, gigabytes of memory) was denoted as a large
resistive load...