Just read Don Eyles' book on writing the code for the LM Guidance
Computer.

I recommend it for anyone interested in the Guidance Computer and
the people who made it perform amazing feats.

It's solely about the LM code; I'd love a book that discussed
the Executive in similar detail.
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Friday, David Lesher quipped:

Just read Don Eyles' book on writing the code for the LM Guidance
Computer.

I recommend it for anyone interested in the Guidance Computer and
the people who made it perform amazing feats.

It's solely about the LM code; I'd love a book that discussed
the Executive in similar detail.

What is "the Executive"?

There's a thread in SSP about the githubbing of Apollo 11 code, and in
it Jeff Findley posted book references in this message:

<URL:https://groups.google.com/g/sci.space.policy/c/eswP2irYt0s/m/hVAnO-WyAwAJ>

Here in SSH, there was a poster who had worked on Apollo code (IIRC),
and he contributed articles (both SSH and print, again IIRC). Most
likely before 2014.

/dps

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Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> writes:

It's solely about the LM code; I'd love a book that discussed
the Executive in similar detail.

What is "the Executive"?

The operating system, in effect. It was the Executive that, when
out of resources, dumped jobs as required, issuing the famous
1201 and 1202 alarms.


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On Sunday, David Lesher pointed out that ...

Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> writes:

It's solely about the LM code; I'd love a book that discussed
the Executive in similar detail.

What is "the Executive"?

The operating system, in effect. It was the Executive that, when
out of resources, dumped jobs as required, issuing the famous
1201 and 1202 alarms.

Okay, I had forgotten that term was used, but here's Ars Technica's
take:

<URL:https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/no-a-checklist-error-did-not-almost-derail-the-first-moon-landing/>

/dps

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Snidely speculated:

On Sunday, David Lesher pointed out that ...

Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> writes:

It's solely about the LM code; I'd love a book that discussed
the Executive in similar detail.

What is "the Executive"?

The operating system, in effect. It was the Executive that, when
out of resources, dumped jobs as required, issuing the famous
1201 and 1202 alarms.

Okay, I had forgotten that term was used, but here's Ars Technica's take:

<URL:https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/no-a-checklist-error-did-not-almost-derail-the-first-moon-landing/>

Including a link to Frank O'Brien's book.

/dps

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After serious thinking David Lesher wrote :

Just read Don Eyles' book on writing the code for the LM Guidance
Computer.

I recommend it for anyone interested in the Guidance Computer and
the people who made it perform amazing feats.

It's solely about the LM code; I'd love a book that discussed
the Executive in similar detail.

On your recommendation, I obtained the book, but I'm reading another
history book at the moment so I can't comment too much beyond high
school.

-d

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