On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall <mad...@li.org> wrote:
> >I've already heard of people running an emulator on > >top of an emulator inside of a VM solely to keep some old application > >alive. > > One or two years ago I was at a small technical college someplace and > the professors (knowing I had worked for DEC) offered to show me an > ancient PDP-11 running RSX-11 that they kept in a locked room. I > thought it was for the students to play with, but no, they were running > the schools payroll on it. :-( > > I asked them what would happen if the machine broke, and they got very > quiet. Then I told them about the PDP-11 emulators that Bob Supnik and > those guys had put together, and they got all happy again. > > Because they thought they wouldn't have to find a new solution to replace the old. And the new one won't last as long.
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