Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code

Someone opened an issue: "Check continuity on O2 cryogenic tanks before allowing stir" https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/issues/3

>TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminar... ...it was not temporary

Another chance to recommend a book that I learnt about from HN: I highly recommend the book, Sunburst and Luminary; http://www.sunburstandluminary.com/SLhome.html A technical pleasure and also very good glimpse into the Apollo team - working together, to land on the moon. It is a fun easy read, written by the fellow in charge of programming the guidance computer on the lunar lander. It is also a great snapshot of that time in history, the excitement of Apollo, and with the…

So that's about 1500 pages of source code for each of the two modules. That's incredibly small, it would literally fit into a thick book. It's often claimed that a modern car contains more program code than early spacecraft. Obviously that's true, but what an understatement! I doubt that even the hardware abstraction layer provided by 2021 Toyota models' embedded operating systems could fit into 1500 pages – and that's just the tip of a huge iceberg that includes everything…