Posted on 06/23/2014 8:38:15 PM PDT by wetphoenix
That is a good guess.
Someone also mentioned military; another thought that came to mind - those things could be embedded in something like the Aegis system, or Trident II launch systems, etc.
I would be surprised if the U.S. designed chip that was copied and cloned hasn't already been identified.
lol, have they already cloned it?
With the use of today's microprocessors, Basic would really scream, and was perfectly adequate for literally anyone to code a workable program in a few hours or days.
I really wish I could get my hands on an undated version of HP Basic. I actually coded literally any engineering task I wanted, text only, which at the time were the most tedious time-consuming tasks.
Coordinate Geometry, Geodesy, structural, hydraulics, statics, dynamics, all were rendered accessible to anyone in control of High school math.
I shouldn't have been surprised, but I was literally amazed when using a "toy" computer and double precision math we could replace a 5-pound book of trigonometric functions for every second of arc on the fly.
Early 1980s...
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