170K views · Nov 6, 2015 · 48:36 · 2 HN recommenders · 4 mentions · discussed 2015–2019
Brian Troutwine's Code Mesh 2015 talk on the Apollo Guidance Computer. It covers the AGC's design, core rope memory, its interrupt and software behavior, and the pioneering engineering effort behind it.
Why Hacker News points people here: Recommended as a wonderful overview of the AGC architecture, though one commenter found it uninspiring.
“The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer" is a wonderful talk”HN comment, 2019
“The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer" is a wonderful talk”
Wonderful talk on the AGC architecture
"The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer" is a wonderful talk: this video The AGC implemented a virtual machine to run higher-level computational routines. The whole architecture is really interesting.
“The part about core rope memory was pretty interesting.”
Covers core rope memory woven as read-only memory
The part about core rope memory was pretty interesting. Star charts and other bits of data were actually woven into a form of read-only memory via loom: this video link
“I just recently watched this really interesting video from London Code Mesh 2015”
Discusses radar interrupts and bugs in the Apollo computer
I was going to say much of the same, but I won't echo you. I just recently watched this really interesting video from London Code Mesh 2015 on the Apollo Guidance Computer where the radar antenna-generated interrupts were discussed (among other interesting bugs). this video
“A not so inspiring talk about a very inspiring topic.”
A not so inspiring talk about a very inspiring topic. A much better talk about the Apollo guidance computer was held at Code Mesh London 2015: this video
