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Comment Re:Survivable crashes are now rare (Score 2) 63

Crashes are now rare in general. When I was a kid, it seemed like there was a major air crash in the US almost annually. I may be wrong, but I don't remember a full-sized airliner (bigger than a regional jet) having a catastrophic crash in the US since shortly after 9/11 when that Airbus lost its tail and crashed in NYC. (Being a natural pessimist, I find this outcome hard to believe and would have lost a good deal of money if I had bet on it.)

However, there still continue to be a large number of hard landings, runway slideoffs, engine fires, cabin fires and other emergency situations where the passengers still need to evacuate quickly because their lives are at risk. (Not to mention the "Miracle on the Hudson".) The safety briefings are still relevant in all those situations.

Comment Embedded systems? (Score 1) 42

I thought it was still popular in embedded systems that don't need 16 and 32 bit architectures? Don't some MCU's run Z80 instructions? I guess the chip is different as it probably includes RAM and other goodies because that's cheaper than using separate chips.

What kind of CPU's and chipsets does one find in small and cheap gizmos?

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