Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission
Was looking through Opportunity's Wikipedia page, and found this cool comparison of the embedded systems used in Mars rovers:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_embedded_compute...That lead me to the RAD6000 page, which was new to me:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RAD6000"Reported to have a unit cost somewhere between US$200,000 and US$300,000, RAD6000 computers were released for sale in the general commercial market in 1996"Anybody know why the per unit cost is so high? Low yields or is it that much more expensive?