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Upgrade drags Stealth Bomber IT systems into the 90s

While it might seem odd to some readers that the US Air Force’s multibillion dollar flagship plane is only now “upgrading” to fairly basic tech, this is commonplace in advanced aerospace and military kit. The space shuttle’s flight computers, similarly critical to it remaining under control, are likewise basic. In the early years of the 21st century, the main battle computer of a Royal Navy destroyer was still based around two 24-bit, 1 MHz processors each with 25KB of RAM.