[geeks] Oldest OS Still Developed

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Wed Oct 18 15:38:41 CDT 2006


Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> It appears that a lot of the ISS is run by a UNIX of some sort running
>> on a Thinkpad.
> 
> You'd never catch me on it if it were.
> 
> Somehow I doubt that.

I don't doubt it at all.  It wouldn't be that big of a deal if you had a 
failure in a machine like that if all of the systems continued whatever 
they were supposed to be doing in the absence of the Thinkpad.

Plus parts for it would be cheap and easy.

Peace...  Sridhar



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