Gene, Since you just LOVE the PDP-11s, this should make your day: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/19/nuke_plants_to_keep_pdp11_until_2050/
On 06/24/2013 01:13 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 24 June 2013 13:59:47 Stuart Stevenson did opine: > >> wonders never cease >> I just saw a link for a PDP-11 assembly programmer for a job to last >> until 2050 >> seems as if anything is possible > Even including that insanity, because based on my experience with a > PDP-11/723, that would have to be considered insanity. That thing was a > crashomatic, several times an hour at the end, and since it took something > like 15 minutes to boot because compiling the program it ran was part of > the boot sequence, the uptime was less than 50% of the time. DEC replaced > everything in that machine but the frame rail with the serial number > riveted to it and every time they touched it, they made it worse. > > My problems with that single example caused the CBS tv network to replace > every machine at every CBS affiliate with industrial IBM's & new software, > on their nickel. That thing probably cost us $100k or more in lost > commercial revenue because it had silently crashed, and a channel change > wasn't done on time, so we were airing a dog food commercial we didn't get > paid for in place of the toothpaste commercial we would have been paid for > had the channel or bird switch been done on time. > > No, I do not remember the PDP-11 days fondly. :( > > Cheers, Gene -- MC Cason Associate Developer - Eagle3D, Created by Matthias Weißer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
