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is Margaret Hamilton, the woman who wrote the code that runs the Roland TB-303 Bassline, used by our brave Astro-Men on the Moon to compose Moon Acid. A piece of Excellent Electronic History. |
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Harry potter looks alot like her |
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seriously though she is an amazing woman, imagine how much the code could have been compressed if they had object orientated language |
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thanks for the info! |
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Am I the only one who thinks she is the holy grail of smokin' hot nerd babes there, or as the English might call it, a well fit boffin? |
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tidy bit of skirt |
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No, she is indeed mighty fine. It's no wonder the 303 sounds so sexy. |
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seriously though she is an amazing woman, imagine how much the code could have been compressed if they had object orientated language this is so stunningly wrong i don't even know where to begin. pretty much every technical term in your statement is used incorrectly |
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she does look like harry potter, though. my reaction was similar: is this another walter gone wendy carlos situation? i squint at the chin is this sexism? would i have even thought that without all the noise about transgender in the news? what a fucking confusing planet we live on |
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i think we need a proper writeup rather than just a photo. if all you got is the photo, well, of course we're staring at it a bit hard. your thread says "she wrote the 303 firmware" imgur says she wrote an "apollo guidance program" and which is it? both? so i google: margaret hamilton 303 the first result is thread. no other sources. shame on you, fleetmouse |
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sorry what i meant was the file size wouldn't be smaller but i imagine it would take less code to accomplish the same thing what they did with whatever language they were using at the time |
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yes i am wrong i just realised it was done in assembly language |
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i wonder how long it took to compile, bet they were shitting themselves it would work |
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what on earth are you talking about |
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the code for the apollo program |
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bet they were shitting themselves it would work i wasn't sure if we were still talking about fleetmouse's fib or what the lady actually did. in fact-checking that, though, i found this on wiki-p: The computer (or rather the software in it) was smart enough to recognize that it was being asked to perform more tasks than it should be performing. It then sent out an alarm, which meant to the astronaut, I'm overloaded with more tasks than I should be doing at this time and I'm going to keep only the more important tasks; i.e., the ones needed for landing ... Actually, the computer was programmed to do more than recognize error conditions. A complete set of recovery programs was incorporated into the software. The software's action, in this case, was to eliminate lower priority tasks and re-establish the more important ones ... If the computer hadn't recognized this problem and taken recovery action, I doubt if Apollo 11 would have been the successful moon landing it was. we would have made some astronaut pancakes if it hadn't been coded up with the implicit assumption that murphy was an optimist**. i wonder how long it took to compile that's like asking, "i wonder how long it took to bake that wedding cake!" baking it is the boring part. you put it in the oven and wait. making the batter (coding) is probably what you were thinking of ** murphy's law: "anything that can go wrong, will." then engineers go around saying, "murphy was an optimist" and the bit of gallows humor makes the truth tolerable |
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seriously impressive stuff, yes i remember something about the priortising stuff, |
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after the days of margaret doing some badass hand-coding NASA moved over to |
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they should employ this guy |
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he already works for god. intel is a good company, but that would still be a step down, careerwise |
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I forgive Hyperflake any number of past or future computer confusions for introducing me to the phrase "tidy bit of skirt". I'm going to be using that one on the missus. |
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id show her my saturn 5 |
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