Peter65 Key Veteran Location: Roxby Downs, South Australia.
Correction there Ted. MS has had a change of heart towards Win98. They are supporting it for a little while longer as there are a lot of people out there who just refuse to roll over and say yes MS please @#$% me over again
Laughing at yourself will lengthen your life. Laughing at me will shorten it...
I think they forgot to send the rover back to the docking station to recharge the batteries. They were so pre-occupied to roam Mars until it ran out of power.
01-23-2004 Over year old.
kauaison Senior Heliman Location: Alameda, CA
think a Gem 2k could of prevented this?
01-23-2004 Over year old.
Dan C Senior Heliman Location: Barnsley, Yorkshire
did'nt the last rover actually have a problem with its operatiing system
They were saved due to the fact if had a load of debug code in it which allowed them to update the code removing a priority inversion on one of the tasks.
I think it had a low prority task that becuase it had not serviced for so long was made a high priority task which then stopped waiting for a normal high proirity task to complete but the low priority task was then caught in a loop.
THe ad's in the trash mags then showed a smoking rover hinting that if you used that particular vendors RTOS you were likely to have a problem
