167 – The Apollo Guidance Computer

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Guest: Frank O’Brien Host: Markus Voelter Shownoter: Stefaan Rillaert

This episode is a mix between computer architecture, programming and (historic) space flight. We cover the ins and outs of the Apollo Guidance Computer. Our guest ist Frank O’Brien, who wrote an incredibly detailed book about this machine. In the episode we cover the hardware architecture, the instruction set, the various layers (native, executive and interpreter) as well as some mission programs.

0:00:30.000 Introduction 0:08:38.000 Overview hardware and software 0:27:30.000 Hardware 1:14:37.000 Executive or Operating System 1:55:00.000 Application software