Article 60TNK A Mars Spacecraft Has Been Running on Windows 98 Era Software for 19 Years, But No More

A Mars Spacecraft Has Been Running on Windows 98 Era Software for 19 Years, But No More

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The days of dial-up internet, AOL Instant Messenger, and Myspace may be over on Earth, but on Mars, the early years of the internet still live on. A Martian spacecraft has been running on software designed more than 20 years ago in a proprietary environment based on Microsoft Windows 98, and is long overdue for an...

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