26 Jul
2001
26 Jul
'01
12:26 p.m.
--- Eric Dittman <dittman(a)dittman.net> wrote:
> I think it's using sapphire as the substrate
for the chip. ISTR, this is
> done primarily in space applications where radiation hardening is
> required.
Didn't the 1802 microprocessor use this
technology?
Yes. That's why it went out on the Voyager probes. V'ger is descended
from the COSMAC Elf.
-ethan
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