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Comment Perfectly suited for the task (Score 2) 197

There are only a handful of space qualified microprocessors available. Most of them were designed 20+ years ago. In fact this is the case for most space qualified ICs of all types. Nothing that goes into space with the expectation of high reliability uses modern high speed circuitry because smaller features result in greater error rates and a shorter operational lifetime due to radiation effects. It is also cost prohibitive to develop a modern fab line to manufacture space grade parts so the industry is mostly stuck in the past using older designs largely due to reliability requirements.

The Java set despairs that they can't play in their perfect abstraction of a machine without gobs of memory and CPU cycles to blow away. People who know how to program bare metal can get by perfectly fine on a "slow" memory constrained device.

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