A US FIRM said that it has delivered two single board computers which are candidates for the US Air Force Research Labs' space science mission. Computers in space are bombarded by particles that can destroy the electronics. But, said Maxwell Technologies, the SCS750 includes component shield technology and system level architecture that indicate an error rate of less than one in 10,000 years. That's a long time. The SCS750 uses three Power PC 750FM chips which simultaneously run the same program and check with each other, "voting" on each operation. If one of the CPUs "disagrees" with the other two,...