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Old 19th Jan 2016, 10:21
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Plus of course even a cursory knowledge of the Apollo landing would show that the pilot (Aldrin?) nearly screwed it up by being human. He messed with the computer when he should not have according to SOP and caused it buffer overrun failures.
Ummm...there you go, blaming the pilot again....

If you had a bit more than cursory knowledge you'd know the program alarms weren't down to Aldrin or Armstrong - the "cycle stealing" that caused the program alarms was actually down to an oversight in the final flight plan/checklists that wasn't caught before flight .. In any event it was Human Beings, not a computer, that saved the descent (e.g. Bales and his support team in Mission Control) and a Human Being who cracked the problem just in time for the ascent ( George Silver at M.I.T. for one.)

Edit to add...anyhow don't take my word for it - https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.1201-fm.html

(apologies for thread drift).

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