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		bluedino on April 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 737 Max: 1960s Design, 1990s Computing Power and P... The goddamn space shuttle ran on 386's, and that was an upgrade from 8086's

bdavis__ on April 9, 2019 [–]

i think the space shuttle used a couple of AP101's, which were 16 bit machines, with core memory, programmed in JOVIAL...

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