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by wglb 34 days ago
I was responding to the headline that says:

>NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore

I did not address the issue of the hardware documentation, just the issue raised by the headline. I fully understand the issues that the hardware and the problems of not having a full map of the hardware or a test bed to check out the code.

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Well the 1970s era programming language would be the assembly language for the bespoke Voyager processors, and the spotty institutional knowledge and lack of a Voyager on the ground means that there's no full understanding. I'm not sure what's inaccurate here.