Comment by kube-system

14 days ago

You're a couple decades behind the news. Basically every version of Windows since 95 has been on spacecraft carrying humans. The ISS notoriously migrated to Linux after a virus spread across their Windows XP systems.

But these things aren't running the guidance computers -- they're laptops.

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mmooss  14 days ago

Laptops have built-in battery backup lasting hours.

  • kube-system  14 days ago

    Are you suggesting that’s the reason they use them? They use laptops because desktops are too big. The laptops aren’t there as some sort of a contingency for a power loss. They’re there to do their research work. You know, how scientists on earth use laptops, and or desktops.

    • mmooss  14 days ago

      How do you know that? Desktop form factors are much more flexible, making them effectively smaller. They don't need a case - you can disassemble them, build them into cabinets and consoles; you can reduce their volume to a keyboard (or less).

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