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Re:Apollo 11 Guidance Computer vs. USB-C Chargers by garaetjjte on Friday February 07, 2020 @05:57PM (#22272048)
Actually radar counter wasn't handled by any software task, it was hardware interrupt hardwired to steal CPU ALU cycles to increment/decrement memory location. Abnormally high steal time caused main navigation job to run too long, and it was getting scheduled again before previous instance finished. That led to memory exhaustion and BAILOUT software restart.

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