Re: Can a computer virus kill the CPU?

Sebastian Gottschalk wrote:
For example, spacecraft don't use advanced Pentium processors.
Spacecraft use 8086 or 68000 version processors that have been well
proven in retail and commercial applications AND then were qualified
(tested) for space operation.

The main reason is that they're cheap.

Apparently you have not worked in and meet requirements for aerospace.
Getting a semiconductor 'fully qualitifed' is not cheap.

Why did the Space Shuttle fly using computers with iron core memories
for the first ten years? Getting electronics qualified for aerospace
is expensive and time consuming. Slow and obsolete core memory based
computers were 'fully qualitifed" then. And they were not cheap.

Hardware that is not damaged by software is easy compared to other
hardware requirements. Software (virus or bug) must not harm hardware.

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