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"...all these worlds..." is a blog by David Hitt. It covers space exploration, decent science fiction, humor (by its very nature), and whatever else I happen to find cool. (Formerly "You Must Fight The Bear")
Name: David Hitt About Me: Inspiring the next generation of explorers... See my complete profile
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:: Monday, January 12, 2004 ::
Mac On Mars
Per MacNN: Meanwhile readers note that the Mars Rover uses a variation of PowerPC chips: "The computer in each Mars Exploration Rover runs with a 32-bit Rad 6000 microprocessor, a radiation-hardened version of the PowerPC chip used in some models of Macintosh computers, operating at a speed of 20 million instructions per second." MacNN also has a story about the two Mac-friendly apps available from JPL in support of the Rover missions (as well as links to where you can download them). I've been remiss in having not posted them earlier, I've been meaning to put Mars24 on my computer at home, and was going to report on it afterwards, but haven't yet.