30 Oct
2015
30 Oct
'15
10:38 a.m.
Liam Proven wrote:
?Why NASA Needs a Programmer Fluent In 60-Year-Old
Languages
To keep the Voyager 1 and 2 crafts going, NASA's new hire has to know
FORTRAN and assembly languages.
?
http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a17991/voyager-1-voyager-2-retiring-e…
Does anyone have any idea as to the actual hardware platform?
I used an IBM 7094 II back around 1965 using both FORTRAN
and assembly language, but that was only 50 years ago.
There was no operating system, just a batch stream of one job
at a time. All I/O was via a 1401 for both input and output.
But it did work well for that era.
Jerome Fine