Humanity celebrates the 50th anniversary of its first moon landing. If anyone forgot, the famous Apollo 11 delivered the astronauts there.
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The spacecraft was equipped with an Apollo Guidance Computer on-board computer. AGC had enough power for everything. He controlled navigation, the movement of Apollo 11, made calculations.
The ship covered 384,000 kilometers to the Earth’s satellite. Then he came back. To achieve the above without the AGC would not work. He played a key role in the success of the mission.
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How AGC is inferior to the current iPhone? The answer may be impressive – millions of times. The exact number was voiced by Graham Kendall, a professor of computer science.
According to Kendall, the iPhone XS is capable of serving 120 million Apollo 11s. At the same time. It’s hard to even imagine.
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The result is due to performance. AGC is equipped with a processor with a clock frequency of 0.043 MHz. In addition, there is 4 KB of RAM and ROM of 72 KB. This configuration allows you to perform 40,000 operations per second.
Lot? iPhone XS "gives out" 5,000,000,000,000 operations. All thanks to the Apple A12 Bionic 2.5 GHz chip. The smartphone also offers 4 GB of RAM and up to 512 GB of flash memory.
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As you can see, technological progress did not stand still. Among other things, pleasing prices. For iPhone XS asking for about $ 1000. AGC at one time cost NASA $ 3.5 million.
Chief editor of the blog – Erika J. Wells .
