Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules
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Re: Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules
#2Happy 10-year anniversary to this repo being shared on HN.
Most significant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048945, 652 points, 145 comments on July 7, 2016
All previous submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/chrislgarr...
Re: Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules
#3Really cool to see this digitized and archived, it's such an important piece of history and really one of the earliest digital ic bases computers.
Re: Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules
#4Great to see the AGC assembly code and knowing that Apollo 11 is coded purely in assembly. Not sure if it has any compiler. Also found https://github.com/virtualagc/virtualagc while searching for compiler.
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#7Great to see the AGC assembly code and knowing that Apollo 11 is coded purely in assembly. Not sure if it has any compiler. Also found https://github.com/virtualagc/virtualagc while searching for compiler.
Part of the AGC ROMs implemented a virtual machine for things like matrix multiplication. So, a higher level of abstraction was available but it was still very much coded in its own assembly language.
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#10In 1969, they had not invented lowercase yet.