[geeks] Oldest OS Still Developed

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 @ 12:15 -0500, Lionel Peterson said:

> >From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
> >Date: 2006/10/18 Wed AM 11:49:47 CDT
> >To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> >Subject: Re: [geeks] Oldest OS Still Developed
> 
> >On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:00:18AM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> >> What is the oldest OS still being developed?  VSE?  GCOS8?
> >
> >MVS?  Direct descendent of OS/360 which predates AFIK DOS (now VS/E).
> >
> >Is anyone still using ACP (airline control program)?
> 
> Whatever runs the US Air Traffic Control system would get my vote...
> 
> Last I heard, REPEATED attempts to replace those platforms have
> failed, leaving us with a very mature product.

Not totally true.

I believe Canada used to use your system, and they have moved to an ATC
system based on Microsoft Windows.

No, I'm not kidding.

They had a special on Discovery Channel about it, and you would even
see the Windows UI elements on some of the screens.

That's pretty scary.

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