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Archive dump from the Galileo magnetometer patch

66 points| lisper | 8 years ago |github.com | reply

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[+] emptybits|8 years ago|reply
I wasn't familiar with that CPU so I just returned from an RCA 1802 rabbit hole.[1]

Fascinating CPU with some neat 1970s applications (like spacecraft and the ELFs). Oh, and a member of the Radiation-Hardened Microprocessors club.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_1802

[+] userbinator|8 years ago|reply
Seeing 1802 and Lisp together is not something that happens very often.

This code was written while I was an employee of JPL in 1993. I don't know what its copyright status is.

IANAL but I believe it would be public domain due to being a work of the US government..

https://www.quora.com/Is-content-produced-by-U-S-government-...

[+] FTA|8 years ago|reply
JPL is run by California Institute of Technology and the work they do is under contract to NASA, so I would be cautious about calling things that stem from there a public domain government work.