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Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for the command and lunar modules

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Re: Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for the command and lunar modules

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Wow, was "burn baby burn" really part of the original source code?! https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminar...

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> At the get-together of the AGC developers celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first moonwalk, Don Eyles (one of the authors of this routine along with Peter Adler) has related to us a little interesting history behind the naming of the routine.

Re: Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for the command and lunar modules

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post #2

Wow, was "burn baby burn" really part of the original source code?! https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminar...

Line 34: > At the get-together of the AGC developers celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first moonwalk, Don Eyles (one of the authors of this routine along with Peter Adler) has related to us a little interesting history behind the naming of the routine.

It's kind of frustrating to try and figure out what is actually the original, unaltered code, and what's been added.

There is a BURNBABY routine, though, so I guess that's real.

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