「 Voyager was the first unmanned mission to include distributed computing, partly because the sheer number of tasks to be executed with precision during the high-stakes planetary fly-bys would exceed the capabilities of any single computer that could be made flyable. There was a social engineering angle to this as well, in that it kept the various engineering teams from competing for resources from a single computer 」
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/the-computers-of-voyager/
#voyager #space #retrocomputing
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