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The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer - Brian Troutwine

Erlang Solutions · talk · Watch on YouTube

History of computingSpace exploration & spaceflightComputer architecture & CPUs

What it is

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 recommends it

Recommended as a wonderful overview of the AGC architecture, though one commenter found it uninspiring.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2019

What HN commenters said

  1. “The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer" is a wonderful talk”

    Wonderful talk on the AGC architecture

    EvanAnderson, 2019-07 · Strong recommendation · in “Apollo 11 Had a Hidden Hero: Software”

  2. “The part about core rope memory was pretty interesting.”

    Covers core rope memory woven as read-only memory

    shawnps, 2015-11 · Recommendation · in “The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer [video]”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: apollo, agc, core rope memory, space computing, history of computing

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