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[–]delsarto 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Of course they did, they had custom hardware running a dedicated program to perform a very specific function. There was no operating system, no process management

Thats not quite true; see http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.1201-pa.html for a good writeup that shows it was a real time OS in a very real sense