[OT] PDP-8 - was: Re: time_t size: The year 2038 bug?

From: Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Date: Mon Jan 17 2000 - 12:41:19 EST


On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 02:45:11PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> A friend of mine is still occasionally making money with PDP 8 software.
> Some of these systems are being used for control of industrial machines
> which keeping up with the version number bloat of the industry was not
> necessary and, the hardware seems to be rock solid so they're still
> running the same software after all these decades.
>
> How old are these machines today?

Ah, nostalgia. My first operating system, with virtual PDP-8's on a PDP-8.
That must have been around 1968-1973.

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