On Monday 24 June 2013 13:59:47 Stuart Stevenson did opine: > wonders never cease > I just saw a link for a PDP-11 assembly programmer for a job to last > until 2050 > seems as if anything is possible
Even including that insanity, because based on my experience with a PDP-11/723, that would have to be considered insanity. That thing was a crashomatic, several times an hour at the end, and since it took something like 15 minutes to boot because compiling the program it ran was part of the boot sequence, the uptime was less than 50% of the time. DEC replaced everything in that machine but the frame rail with the serial number riveted to it and every time they touched it, they made it worse. My problems with that single example caused the CBS tv network to replace every machine at every CBS affiliate with industrial IBM's & new software, on their nickel. That thing probably cost us $100k or more in lost commercial revenue because it had silently crashed, and a channel change wasn't done on time, so we were airing a dog food commercial we didn't get paid for in place of the toothpaste commercial we would have been paid for had the channel or bird switch been done on time. No, I do not remember the PDP-11 days fondly. :( Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> <xtifr> wow, I think I just used libtool to solve a problem -- somebody help me! :> <luca> xtifr, STEP AWAY FROM THE KEYBOARD A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
