486 on the Hubble

I see that the Hubble uses the mighty i80486 for a CPU, I wonder if this
was some mil spec, rad hard, super gee-whiz version or the standard CPU.
Powered off for 19 years and came up, I'm impressed.

--
Bill Davidsen
He was a full-time professional cat, not some moonlighting
ferret or weasel. He knew about these things.

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I see that the Hubble uses the mighty i80486 for a CPU, I wonder if this
> was some mil spec, rad hard, super gee-whiz version or the standard CPU.
> Powered off for 19 years and came up, I'm impressed.

The next set of processors might well be off-the-shelf AMD processors,
as they use SOI technology in their manufacture. SOI was originally
designed for aerospace industry to guard against the extra radiation
that occurs at high altitudes.

Yousuf Khan