APOLLO FLIGHT
ISSUES
THINGS INCLUDED
THINGS CONSIDERED
COMPARISION BETWEEN AGC AND IPHONE 6
MUCH SPECULATION
NO FANCY TOUCHSCREENS
FOUR CONTROLLING COMPUTER INSTEAD OF ONE
NO GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
OCCURANCE OF ISSUES
INCREASE OF NUMBER IN APOLLO'S DEVELOPMENT
INCREASE IN SOPHISTICATION
LIMITED AMOUNT OF MEMORY
TECHNOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS OF TIME
PERFORMANCE SOMEWHERE LIKE 1ST GENERATION OF PC
2K OF RAM
36K OF FIXED STORAGE MAGNETIC ROPE CORE MEMORY
USED EVERY BYTE AVAILABLE
PRIORITIZED IMPORTANT PROGRAMS
CERTAIN SYSTEMS WERE IN CONTROL
UNIX
LINUX
WINDOWS
APPLE iOS
IPHONE USES ARM A8 PROCESSOR WITH 1.6 BILLION TRANSISTOR
IPHONE HAS 1GB OF RAM ABOUT 488,000 TIMES THE AGC
IPHONE IS 4 TO 30 MILLION TIMES FASTERTHAN AGC ON CALCULATIONS
AGC HAD 12,300
IPHONE HAS 128GB OF NON VOLATILE STORAGE ABOUT 3.5 MILLION TIMES AGC
GOT MEN TO MOON AND BACK WITH TINY FRACTION OF COMPUTING POWER LIKE A SMARTPHONE
FOUR COMPUTERS USED
SATURN LAUNCH VEHICLE DIGITAL COMPUTER(LVDC)
APOLLO GUIDANCE COMPUTER
APPLE II
COMMODORE
ZX SPECTRUM
BLUNDER TO TRUST IPHONE TO GET TO MOON BUT DUE TO AGC IT WAS CONTROLLED
BUILT WITH RESET PROTECTION
DROPPED NON ESSENTIAL OPERATIONS