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rcxdudetoday at 1:25 PM1 replyview on HN

What they have is surprisingly fragmentary. For the recent software issue, they had to be very conservative in what they changed because they aren't 100% sure about the details of the ISA on the actual spacecraft (due to amiguity between different revisions of the wiring of the CPU), and so they don't really have a simulator they can trust.


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joseda-hgtoday at 6:32 PM

Maybe I'm used to think of NASA as this infinite budget agency, but considering Voyager's significance...

To me that souns like we should test all revisions of the CPU, not none of them

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