In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Clive D.W. Feather " writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp said: >> As I said, 50 years seems right, and it does so because there is >> no currently running computer that has worked for 50 years. > >Actually, the "programme machines" that control the signalling of much of >the London Underground are somewhat older than that. They run to, IIRC, a >15 second accuracy (I'd have to dig out various technical papers to be >sure).
The Copenhagen S-trains are controlled by a 30 year old system I think. >> In the US I belive something is antique when it is 25 years old, >> in Europe I think it has to be 50 years old to gain the distinction. > >100 years. > >-- >Clive D.W. Feather | Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Tel: +44 20 8495 6138 >Internet Expert | Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Fax: +44 870 051 9937 >Demon Internet | WWW: http://www.davros.org | Mobile: +44 7973 377646 >Thus plc | | > -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
