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57 years ago today, humans first landed on the Moon. The source code that helped get them there? It’s on GitHub. Margaret Hamilton led the MIT team responsible for Apollo’s onboard flight software. (Image credit: Draper Laboratory; restoration by Adam Cuerden, via Wikimedia Commons.)

Jorge

@antartica81.bsky.social

20 July

@lusaimon.com this gave me a bit of a warm glow

Simon Lucy

@lusaimon.com

1MgHz 2K of Ram (core memory) and 32k of ROM for the software. Margaret Hamilton is 90 next month, and created the term software engineering, she's not received a Turing, I have no idea why.

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