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by gurjeet·4y ago·view on hn ↗
The code on the computers has been upgraded, and even the language used to prpgram has changed over the years [1]. Which leads me to believe that the computer has been restarted/rebooted many times in all these years.

I think there may be other computers, right here on Earth, that may be able to at least compete given those criteria.

[1]: From the linked page:

> The CCS originally ran software written in the Fortran programming language, but this has been continually upgraded since its launch (software updates can be transmitted and installed remotely). The current software is written in a mixture of C and Fortran.

The following is fascinating.

> The age of the computer and its codebase has caused problems for NASA in recent years. In 2015 Larry Zottarelli, the last of the project's original programmers, retired, and it was difficult to find a replacement with such in-depth knowledge of what now seem like ancient hardware and design principles.