Forth makes history

[Mark Wills]

The EAS Philae Lander has just landed on a comet, the first
time that it's ever been done. It's a first for Forth, too.
The Lander's CPU is a radiation-hardened RTX2010, a native
Forth CPU.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTX2010

Thanks to Julian Skidmore for the heads-up via the Fignition
list.

Mark

[Mark Wills]

Further sources:

http://www.cpushack.com/2014/11/12/here-comes-philae-powered-by-an-rtx2010/

http://www.bernd-leitenberger.de/philae.shtml (German)

http://www.sgf.hu/newsgfweb3_005.htm

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experimentDisplay.do?id=PHILAE%20%20%20-04

[rickman]

From the SGF site,

The Harris RTX2010 processor "is a stack based, Forth language oriented
processor with an exotic and challenging instruction set."

I'm not sure why they felt the need to say that.

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Rick

[Andrew Haley]

"Exotic and challenging," bah. If you say RTX2010 is exotic and
challenging, I'm going to raise you Itanium. Now, *that* is exotic
and challenging.

Andrew.

[jda...@ifbyphone.com]

On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 10:50:36 AM UTC-6, Mark Wills wrote:

> http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experimentDisplay.do?id=PHILAE%20%20%20-04

This last link appears broken. Could you provide an updated one? Thanks!

[visua...@rocketmail.com]

Try this one: http://rosetta.jpl.nasa.gov/

There are some interesting articles at the ECN magazine:

http://www.ecnmag.com/news/2014/11/5-questions-about-historic-comet-landing
http://www.ecnmag.com/news/2014/11/final-countdown-nears-1st-comet-landing
http://www.ecnmag.com/news/2014/11/timeline-comet-probes-10-year-journey

[Paul E Bennett]

Try this one:-

<http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experimentSearch.do>


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[visua...@rocketmail.com]

On Thursday, November 13, 2014 12:17:02 PM UTC-5, Paul E Bennett wrote:
> Try this one:-
> <http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experimentSearch.do>

More than 30,000 people are watching now:
http://new.livestream.com/ESA/cometlanding

Found at
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/rosetta-philae-comet-landing-success/?mbid=nl_111214