Yes. Modern software is extremely bloated. But the Apollo computers were operated by people with masters degrees or PhDs. And they trained to use them for over a year. Good luck trying to get the average person to use anything that runs on kilobytes of RAM.
Just switches and numbers, no foreign language support, no screen reader, no tool tips, no drag and drop, no night mode, …
The only convenience feature was converting metric to imperial for display.
Yes. Modern software is extremely bloated. But the Apollo computers were operated by people with masters degrees or PhDs. And they trained to use them for over a year. Good luck trying to get the average person to use anything that runs on kilobytes of RAM.
Just switches and numbers, no foreign language support, no screen reader, no tool tips, no drag and drop, no night mode, …
The only convenience feature was converting metric to imperial for display.