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The Space Shuttle had redundant computers. The Apollo Guidance Computer was not redundant (though there were two AGCs onboard-- one in the CM and one in the LEM
by EvanAnderson 6y ago
The Space Shuttle had redundant computers. The Apollo Guidance Computer was not redundant (though there were two AGCs onboard-- one in the CM and one in the LEM). The aerospace industry has a history of using redundant dissimilar computers (different CPU architectures, multiple implementations of the control software developed by separate teams in different languages, etc) in voting-based architectures to hedge against various failure modes.