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Although from hearing about the Apollo Guidance Computer, it's just as much of a miracle they were able to get it to work without any debugging or compilers, wi
by hexane360 10y ago
Although from hearing about the Apollo Guidance Computer, it's just as much of a miracle they were able to get it to work without any debugging or compilers, with basically one shot to write the program to ROM.
- roberthensing 10y agoWell they put in an effort of 1400 man years for just the software. They even built an interpreter, because (flight/trajectory) requirements were changing all the time. Also: "The highest level of testing was performed with a high fidelity digital simulation of the computer, spacecraft hardware, and mission environment." http://klabs.org/history/history_docs/mit_docs/1711.pdf http://klabs.org/history/history_docs/mit_docs/1711.pdf