The latest, but probably not the last, tale of old software running in mission-critical operations comes to us via the Twitter feed of guitar-playing Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield . The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe, currently in orbit around the Red Planet and doing just fine, recently had a major software update to increase its chances of discovering water there. How do you update Windows 98 on a spaceship orbiting Mars? @esa is doing it for Mars Express, after 19 years. https://t.co/DRWtuaqo22 pic.twitter.com/xxkDz5GrL1 June 22, 2022 See more Launched in 2003, the Mars Express, and its MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding) water probe, naturally ran one of the major operating systems of the time. Windows 98. And that is how we discovered that there’s a computer capable of running Doom in orbit over Mars, notable not so much for its abundance of alien life as it is for being the setting for id Software's demon-blasting first-person shooter. Thanks Colonel Hadfield! ESA's blog on the subject doesn't go into a great deal of detail, particularly regarding the framerates we could expect from Doom on the Mars Express, and how large a screen it has. It doesn't… Read full this story
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