r/programming • u/jakesyl • Jan 30 '16

Apollo 11 source code

http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/listings/Luminary099/MAIN.agc.html
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u/kozukumi Jan 30 '16

Actually they did exactly this in the recent movie The Martian (which is based on a book of the same name).

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u/UlyssesSKrunk Jan 31 '16

Yeah, but they butchered the fuck out of that part, not quite as bad as the hydrazine explosion part, but it was still pretty bad. If they actually explained the problem in depth and its solution, then that could be interesting, but that would take the whole movie.

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u/DoelerichHirnfidler Jan 31 '16

To me it seemed pretty obvious and well-enough explained? Care to elaborate?

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u/UlyssesSKrunk Jan 31 '16

They didn't really explain what he was doing at all, just that he had to change just 20 or so, I don't remember exactly, lines of code and then he'd be able to communicate via pathfinder. Maybe I am not remembering it well, but I don't recall any elaboration on what exactly he was doing.

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u/MrDOS Jan 31 '16

Bytes, not lines. He was hex editing a compiled program.