9 Apr
2013
9 Apr
'13
4:22 a.m.
Why, oh why, would anyone want to run an EOL platform?
(Other than
to keep things up and running.)
Why would anyone want to run _any_ computer other than to keep things
up and running?
But there actually are multiple answers to that question. Here are a
few that occur to me offhand:
- To keep an existing system running, as you mentioned.
- Emotional attachments (to the hardware, to the software, whatever).
- Interfacing to otherwise useless hardware (today, this might mean
Qbus or Sbus; AIUI everything using either is EOLed or worse now).
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