On Tuesday 25 June 2013 13:41:58 Dave did opine: > On 6/25/2013 3:23 AM, MC Cason wrote: > > Gene, > > > > Since you just LOVE the PDP-11s, this should make your day: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/19/nuke_plants_to_keep_pdp11_unti > > l_2050/ > > > > On 06/24/2013 01:13 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> 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 > > And some are surprised that Nuke plants have problems periodically! > > Dave
Yes, and with all the NRC mandated paperwork, folks don't understand it costs them 10 grand in legal fees just to replace a faucet washer or flush valve in the mens room. A failed analog meter movement may cost 100G's because the failed meter has been made out of pure un-obtainium for at least 30 years now. Gotta go through all that bull shit to get a change order approved, often by regulatory drones who would not even know what to call it if the failed one was thrown down on their desk. They should throw all that stuff out, and make the owner of record and his entire family live on the property within 100 yards of the containment vessel. Corporations disconnected from reality by a board of directors flat not allowed. For his own health & well being, he would damned sure take care of it, and far more diligently than any corporate consortium would. His life would be one the first to be endangered in the case of poor maintenance. Sounds like a hell of a good plan to me. Yeah, I can be a hard a$$. At my age what can they do to me that the number of calendars pulled off the nail on Jan 1 hasn't already done? I'd like to think it gives one a bit of a long view, not in the R.A.H. sense, but on the way to it at least. 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> The world really isn't any worse. It's just that the news coverage is so much better. 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
