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That is really cool! What if the guidance computer operated with a bad parser? I imagine that could have been disastrous.
by derrida 15y ago
That is really cool!
What if the guidance computer operated with a bad parser? I imagine that could have been disastrous.
- russell 15y agoNot really a problem. All the software was rigorously tested using emulators running on mainframes. The Guidance computers were truly bizarre things. They used core memories for program storage, but to save weight only the 1 bits were expressed with cores. The 0 bits had none. If you recompiled a program and even one bit changed, the memory had to be re-manufactured. Therefore, lots of testing.