9 Apr
2013
9 Apr
'13
2:34 a.m.
On Apr 8, 2013, at 8:56 PM, MG wrote:
On 9-apr-2013 2:15, Dave McGuire wrote:
I'm not interested in getting into this, but that's actually
not a bad reason to keep running an EOL platform. Ask the
steel mill we worked with to replace their old Multibus-
based stand controllers; it's a lot cheaper to keep an old
system running (especially if it's a very durable design,
like a lot of the Alpha boxes and VAXen) than it is to try
to replace the system. Especially if something goes wrong
when you're trying to replace it.
For the record, we only buckled *one* many-thousand-dollar
ingot of steel. :-) And that was a bug in their old
documentation for the system we had to interface with.
- Dave
I dunno, I had quite a few of them in my
datacenter. They
were very common in my world. Some of them still are.
Why, oh why, would anyone want to run an EOL platform? (Other than
to keep things up and running.)