top | item 15679321 Archive dump from the Galileo magnetometer patch 66 points| lisper | 8 years ago |github.com | reply 7 comments order hn newest [+] [-] 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. load replies (2)
[+] [-] 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. load replies (2)
[+] [-] 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. load replies (2)
[+] [-] emptybits|8 years ago|reply
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
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