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Original Apollo 11 code open-sourced by NASA — original Command Module and Lunar Module code repos are now public domain resources (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The wording makes it sound like this just happened, but I remember seeing it before. Sure enough, some of the files in GitHub were updated 10 years ago, and most at least 6 years ago.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I too was very confused by this and have the same memory as you; this was released a long time ago already. Did the Tom’s hardware guy not check the date?

[–] jonesy@aussie.zone 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Code is here: https://fermatslibrary.com/s/apollo-11-implementation-of-trigonometric-functions#email-newsletter

GitHub: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/tree/27e2acf88a6345e2b1064c8b006a154363937050