[rescue] Vaxen?

Kurt Huhn kurt at k-huhn.com
Sat Apr 27 09:43:07 CDT 2002


> > I don't know if its still true, but most commercial nuclear reactors were
> > run by PDP's until recently.
> 
> it wouldn't surprise me.  pre-LSI hardware is EXTREMELY resistant to any type
> of interference.  in a business where you can fuck things up pretty badly
> that's important.  it's for the same reason that core memory is still used
> by NASA since multi-bit memory errors could mean dead astronauts.
> 

My DBA/Perl hacker has told me that the nuclear factory he worked at
(ABB I think) used a umber of PDP-11s in production, and that was only a
few years ago.
-- 
Kurt
kurt at k-huhn.com



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