18 Jan
1999
18 Jan
'99
10:55 a.m.
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Jerome Fine wrote:
The question is which system is more likely
to be able to run in 36 years:
(a) A real MicroPDP-11
(b) Some sort of OS and hardware which can run W95
(A) is the answer - as (B) can not be done reliably even today 8-)
which is presently able to run the E11 PDP-11
emulator by John Wilson?
Well I vote for the PDP-11 - get some spares and set them aside - every
5 years swap the spares in the machine to make sure they still work.
Fix anything that doesn't - been working for me for 10 years...
BC