Originally Posted by
phylosocopter
i believe the 737 is running 286's
Thank the mathematicians that demand a formal proof of the FMC chip and operating systems 'for safety'. Creating formal proofs for multicore multiprocessing systems is not feasible, in consequence most people's smart phones have significantly more processing power than modern FMCs. The same mathematical proof approach was suggested for air traffic systems, but they were already beyond the capability threshold of such mathematical games before the suggestion was made. (The original NAS host, designed in the late 1960's was effectively a multicore system with a team of 6 - IBM 360's for flight data processing and another team of 6 IBM 360's for 'radar data processing' )