7 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 29 Jun 2023 \ on: POLL: Which is a bigger deal: the MOON landing or the MARS landing? bitcoin
Considering that software engineering did not exist in the 60s (Margaret Hamilton invented the term "software engineering" [0]) and how little computational resources where available back then, I picked "Moon".
the Apollo Guidance Computer, which weighed 70 pounds, had only 36K of RAM and 2K of ROM. But it was able to guide 27 men to the moon’s orbit and bring them back safely.
-- https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/the_computer_that_took_man_to_the_moon
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_engineer)
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