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Subject: Re: ECC RAM useless with FreeBSD? 
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To answer my own question, I finally dug something up that hints at what
NASA laptops have to go through:

<http://www.mobilecomputing.com/MobileComputingN2/mcc199906/featureb1.htm>

Scroll down to the "NASA Buys Off-the-Shelf for Outer Space" section.

It looks like they have specially certified IBM Thinkpads, and the
process is very thorough.

Fascinating.


	-- Parag Patel


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