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anonymous_user9today at 12:17 PM1 replyview on HN

This is slop, but perhaps the old-fashioned kind.

> An 8085 processor that could handle 1×106 rads of radiation with only a 25% reduction in performance, and 3×106 rads with a 40% drop.

Hmm, from where did they copy-paste this mangled scientific notation?

Ah here we are, pg. 37 (46 in PDF file): https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA063902.pdf


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egorfinetoday at 12:37 PM

Excellent find. And yes, obviously this is slop. 106 rad is exactly nothing for nuclear usage.

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