DECnet and other dead technologies (was: Linux for "cloud computing")

[Tom Buskey]

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall <maddog at 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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