34C3 - The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk
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Jobs on the Apollo Guidance Computer yield to the executive. During the landing an extra load from the rendezvous radar filled the job queue, triggering an alarm and a program restart.
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Jobs have to manually check at least every 20 millisecondsqueue of jobs build up, which resulted in executive overflow