[rescue] Vaxen?

[Brian Hechinger]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 06:25:51AM -0700, Fogg, James wrote:
> 
> 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.

-brian
-- 
"He's hopped up on caffeine. He has the strength of ten mice."  -PVP