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from: MARTIN GREGORIE
date: 2021-01-22 16:30:00
subject: Re: =?iso-8859-1?B?ozMuNj

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:17:02 +0100, Björn Lundin wrote:

> Den 2021-01-22 kl. 16:03, skrev gareth evans:
>>
>>
>> ISTR that FORTH on an RCA 1802 is in the Voyager missions?
>
> I was at a fascinating talk in Madrid in 2015 by a guy at ESA and he
> said (I can't remember which - or both) that either Rosetta or Philae
> was coded i Forth, with design/coding started in 1994 and launched 10
> years later.

I don't see why not - IIRC FORTH originally came from the astronomy
community, who used it to control telescopes.





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