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They are older, but you have to remember that the 6502 was a low-cost CPU used in home computers, so the hardware on board Voyager is likely a bit more advanced
by rob74 4y ago
They are older, but you have to remember that the 6502 was a low-cost CPU used in home computers, so the hardware on board Voyager is likely a bit more advanced. And it's also worth remembering that an even older computer guided the Apollo capsules to the Moon and back safely...
- KineticLensman 4y agoIf you want a programmer's eye view of the Apollo hardware / software, I recommend Sunburst and Luminary: an Apollo Memoir by Don Eyles. He wrote some of the programmes that landed the Lunar Module and gives a great perspective on how they worked and integrated with the other programmes (like the radar manager) also running on the LM computer and competing for the tiny computational resources available. [Edit] Including how on one mission he developed a software hack that an astronaut had to type in, correctly, or else, in the few minutes between the LM emerging from the lunar far side and reaching the point where a landing burn was initiated.
- xpil 4y agoI am just reading it now and it is better than anticipated.