On 6/25/2013 3:23 AM, MC Cason wrote: > 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 >> > > And some are surprised that Nuke plants have problems periodically!
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