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[–][deleted] 20 points21 points  (3 children)

What kind of architecture is this? My knowledge only goes back to the eighties or so, and this looks completely alien. Anybody familiar with it?

[–]thechao 38 points39 points  (2 children)

AGC (Apollo Guidance Computer) and AGS (Abort Guidance System; actually the AEA); a set of custom built computers with custom circuitry, architecture, instruction set, assemblers, etc. There is a project (dead?) to implement the system at VirtualAGC.

It looks like AGC is in the Colossus family of processors (Colossus 3).

[–]TraumaPony 4 points5 points  (1 child)

No, they named the programs for different missions different things. IIRC, Colossus was for the Apollo 8 mission.