3 Nov
2011
3 Nov
'11
9:28 p.m.
On 03/11/11 11:33 PM, leaknoil wrote:
On 11/3/2011 8:04 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
I think that was already explained: existing applications that run on
VAX under rather specific conditions that make emulators infeasible.
The military connection is realistic; fairly recently I heard of
military aircraft simulators still running on VAX-11/780. Imagine the
headaches of keeping that going... but those headaches are still less
than finding an alternative.
--Toby
Hey, you're the one who asked for an explanation. ;)
-Dave
Maybe the explanation I'm looking for is what in the world could
possibly require a 4000-96 that could be done with something else. I
mean it's a graphical workstation. It has to be a graphics app.
Something that has nothing to do with speed, reliability, or graphics
performance. Yet is tied to graphics in some way.
In the Sun world you run into this occasionally with
things like
electron microscopes or mass spectrometers. Few out there still running
off SPARCStation 5 or such. Usually tied to a Sbus card to interface to
the real gear. Never run into this in dec workstation land.