Joseph Legris said:
A few reasons (and they don't just apply to AC and ACT):
-Trend toward lower voltage, faster technologies
-Increased use of programmable logic or custom chips
-Increased use of microcontollers with only little bits of external logic
These days, about the only place you'll see boards full of MSI logic is
in old equipment where modern replacements are impractical, such as in
the space shuttle and the Canadian armed forces.
You might wish to replace impractical with critical. One old thing I heard
is that the space shuttle runs off old pieces of shit for a simple
reason..... New pieces of shit are shit.
Something I wrote a long while back, and I'll try to recreate it, you might
like to edit it, I'm sure the wonders of modern news messages will render it
toilet. I know I did this before the thing blew up the first time so any
reference is purely unintended.
"Columbus, this is Houston, you are go for main computer start sequence."
'Beep'
"Houston, this is Columbus, initiating main computer start sequence now."
'Beep'
'Currlick'
Whirr Whirr Whirr, Chirp Chirp Chirp... Beep, Somebodies BIOS, Checking
Memory, 640K base, click, 384K extended, click, 1024K, click 2048K
Memory Check complete.
"Columbus, this is Houston, main engine start in 10 seconds"
DOS is now checking your memory....
click 64K
click 128K
snore
"Columbus, this is Houston, main engine start in 5 seconds"
Memory check complete.
Mode CON, something or another, select codepage, something else.
Mode Something, something or another, something else.
Keybd, tra... laa...laa
Mousdrv, tra... laa..laa
Path = huge path plus other things.
Load something.
Load something else.
Set something to something
"Columbus, this is Houston, main engine start in 2 seconds"
Himem is now testing your extended memory.
click 64K
click 128K
snore
"Columbus, this is Houston, main engines are now Go"
Windows 3.11 is now loading.
'Oh, **** ****, c'mon c'mon.'
"Columbus, this is Houston, release in,
5
4
3
2
1
"Columbus has left the tower, Whoooooo Whooooo Whooooo!!!!!"
'Shit, Shitttt, click on that one. Arghhh, double click on it. Yes!!
Yess!!!'
Rotate_shuttle_ right.exe has caused a general protection fault in
Lots of hex numbers Here
And Even More Here
With some more Here
And some other such stuff
Contact the supplier of this software for an explanation. Ha Ha.
If you credit the Canadians with the same sense as NASA then you need to
live in fear, or was that a warning?