Mercury Programming System(ID:7994/)

Realtime programming system for the Mercury Spaceflights 

Realtime programming system for the Mercury Spaceflights, designed to run on the IBM 7090s at Cape Canaveral. Used a hyrbid of three different sytem approaches - hardware oriented assembler routines, task-oriented c and c routines and an exotic error-controlling system that partially enabled and partially disabled further control
References:
  • Scott, Marilyn B. and Hoffman, Robert "The Mercury Programming System" view details
          in [JCC 20] Proceedings of the Eastern Joint Computer Conf. Washington, D.C. 1961 view details