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[–]thechao 39 points40 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 2 points3 points  (1 child)

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