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Margaret Hamilton, NASA's lead developer for Apollo program, stands next to all the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the moon in 1969

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[-] jafo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Also worth remembering: The Apollo guidance computer had less compute power than a USB charger. That thing sent us to the moon. https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a30916315/usb-c-charger-apollo-11-computer/

[-] irkli@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The article got Moore's Law wrong. It states that areal density doubles about every 18 months (as I remember it) which tl;dr approximates "more compute power" indirectly. Also it's not true any more but again that's no big deal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law?wprov=sfla1

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