Excellent decision. No microsoft code will run on that platform.
The world will sleep better.
Art
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Reply by Martin Riddle●June 19, 20132013-06-19
On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:34:51 -0700, John Larkin
<jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:
Don't blame the getaway horse for the bank robbery!
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Reply by Ecnerwal●June 19, 20132013-06-19
In article <8v84s8lfsj28jqatg31oadr2vlva1f4jqt@4ax.com>,
John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:
So the thing in my shed is valuable spare parts for a nuclear plant, not
old junque I'm dumb enough to pick up and take home with me? Gosh, where
are the nuke plant boys looking for spare parts, I'll make them such a
deal...unless it's an 8. I think it's an 11, but I haven't looked at in
in a while. IIRC it ran RSX-11, which would seem to increase the odds
that it's an 11, unless it doesn't. I have some 256Kb tape drives in a
different shed. Yep, that's right, a whole 256K on a cute little
computer cassette. In both cases I figured the power supply and case
would be the parts worth the bother of dragging them home, but I could
be talked into changing my mind for adequate nuke-plant money...
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RSTS was wonderful. I timeshared about 20 users on a PDP11/45, and it ran for
months at a stretch.
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> In article <8v84s8lfsj28jqatg31oadr2vlva1f4jqt@4ax.com>,
> John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:
>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/19/nuke_plants_to_keep_pdp11_until_2050/
>
> So the thing in my shed is valuable spare parts for a nuclear plant, not
> old junque I'm dumb enough to pick up and take home with me? Gosh, where
> are the nuke plant boys looking for spare parts, I'll make them such a
> deal...unless it's an 8. I think it's an 11, but I haven't looked at in
> in a while. IIRC it ran RSX-11, which would seem to increase the odds
> that it's an 11, unless it doesn't. I have some 256Kb tape drives in a
> different shed. Yep, that's right, a whole 256K on a cute little
> computer cassette. In both cases I figured the power supply and case
> would be the parts worth the bother of dragging them home, but I could
> be talked into changing my mind for adequate nuke-plant money...
FWIW my late dad programmed a pdp11 in the mid-1970s. One of his old
pdp11 manuals from 1975 still sets on my shelf as a keepsake. My Basic
progamming class in engineering school used a teletype connected to a
minicomputer. Although the setup probably offered an experience similar
to a pdp11, my minicomputer was actually an HP, IIRC.
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Don Kuenz
Well, software is one thing - hardware another.
While there may be some good reasons to keep a PDP-11 from a software
point of view, I wonder how you should be able to keep the hardware
going. And while the software may be solid and safe, what does that help
if the hardware is failing all the time.
I had once the "pleasure" of keeping a Nord-10
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord-10) running until it was replaced in
2002. Hardware failures/problems where they major hurdle. Just thinking
of trying to keep such a machine in a reliable condition until 2050
gives me the creeps. This appears to push obsolescence problems to the
next level.
Klaus
Reply by Jasen Betts●June 20, 20132013-06-20
On 2013-06-20, Klaus Bahner <Klaus.Bahner@ieee.org> wrote:
> On 19-06-2013 23:34, John Larkin wrote:
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>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/19/nuke_plants_to_keep_pdp11_until_2050/
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> Well, software is one thing - hardware another.
> While there may be some good reasons to keep a PDP-11 from a software
> point of view, I wonder how you should be able to keep the hardware
> going. And while the software may be solid and safe, what does that help
> if the hardware is failing all the time.
>
> I had once the "pleasure" of keeping a Nord-10
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord-10) running until it was replaced in
> 2002. Hardware failures/problems where they major hurdle. Just thinking
> of trying to keep such a machine in a reliable condition until 2050
> gives me the creeps. This appears to push obsolescence problems to the
> next level.
keep the code, just run it under emulation, there's no shortage of
PDP11 emulators.
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