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I doubt so and if they will they’ll be abstracted to hell behind modern commodity hardware, Apollo had no bias when it comes to HDI/MMIs so astronauts could be trained on the computer interface that was possible at the time.

The reason why the controls of Dragon and Orion look the way they do is that they are no far off from modern digital cockpits of jets like the F-22 and F-35 and everyone is used to graphical interfaces and touch controls.

Having non intuitive interfaces that go against the bias astronauts and later on civilian contractors already have by using such interfaces over the past 2 decades will be detrimental to overall mission success.

The other reason for why they’ll opt to use commodity hardware is that if we are going back to space for real now you need to be able to build and deploy systems at an ever increasing pace.

We have enough powerful human safety rated hardware from aerospace and automotive there is no need to dig up relics.

And lastly you’ll be hard pressed to find people who still know how to work with such legacy hardware at scale and unless we will drastically change the curriculum of computer science degrees around the US and the world that list would only get smaller each year. We’re far more likely to see ARM and RISC-V in space than z80’s.