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Would you trust your personal computer to take you to the moon?
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April 28th, 2012
Recently, I read an interesting article about the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) that was on the Apollo moon missions.
In my opinion, it is amazing that a computer with such limitations (a total of 34kb of memory) could accomplish what the AGC did. As far as I know, there were no software glitches during any mission to the moon. There were two hardware problems, but neither had to do with the main computer. Since there were extreme limitations, they wrote (had to write) high-quality programs.
The end of the article asks a neat question- If you could choose to go to the moon tomorrow with a computer running Windows XP (or any other modern OS), would you still want to go?
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