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by papalalu 5052 days ago
presumably the 8 year old design would use already-proven tech too..
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Indeed, their shopping list 8 years ago was not from Newegg with whatever Intel had at the time, it was whatever BAE had spent many years rad hardening and qualifying by that point, which would itself have been based on an already proven CPU (read: older) when BAE first started looking. All of a sudden it's 1993.