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Re:Apollo 11 Guidance Computer vs. USB-C Chargers by oldandcold on Friday February 07, 2020 @03:07PM (#22270306)
It didn't crash. It behaved as designed. Too much work to do, and the scheduler had to deal with priority problems.
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Re:Apollo 11 Guidance Computer vs. USB-C Chargers by garaetjjte on Friday February 07, 2020 @04:04PM (#22270928)
It ran out of memory for allocating new tasks that were stacking on top of each other, and triggered BAILOUT restart. Navigation continued because it was restart protected by loading state checkpoint from dedicated memory area.
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