Its time to send out another probe or two.
Its time to send out another probe or two.
Pretty fucking amazing what you can do when you actually are forced to optimise your system and not just say "buy more ram, get a bigger hard drive, get a faster CPU/GPU/etc".
Yes, I do also understand that purpose built systems can be very small/simple due to a lack of need for "general compute" but you get my point.
Archive: https://archive.today/EvbSS
From the post:
>Right now, more than 15 billion miles from Earth, a 48-year-old spacecraft is hurtling through interstellar space at 38,000 miles per hour. It is the farthest human-made object in the universe. It is sending back scientific data that no other instrument in existence can collect. And it is doing all of this on 69 kilobytes of memory and an 8-track tape recorder. The phone in your pocket has roughly one million times more memory than the computer running Voyager 1.
Pretty fucking amazing what you can do when you actually are forced to optimise your system and not just say "buy more ram, get a bigger hard drive, get a faster CPU/GPU/etc".
Yes, I do also understand that purpose built systems can be very small/simple due to a lack of need for "general compute" but you get my point.
Archive: https://archive.today/EvbSS
From the post:
>>Right now, more than 15 billion miles from Earth, a 48-year-old spacecraft is hurtling through interstellar space at 38,000 miles per hour.
It is the farthest human-made object in the universe.
It is sending back scientific data that no other instrument in existence can collect.
And it is doing all of this on 69 kilobytes of memory and an 8-track tape recorder.
The phone in your pocket has roughly one million times more memory than the computer running Voyager 1.
You are currently inside a comment thread.
Click here to see all the comments (2).