Emulation or the real thing? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

25 Oct 1998

At 12:14 PM 21-10-98 -0700, Sam Ismail wrote:
...
 On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, John Foust wrote:

> This reminds me of a claim I hear in Y2K discussions, but can hardly 
> believe: that businesses are running the same *executables* since 
> the 1950s/60s/70s, and that they don't have the source code to fix it.  
Well, here is an edited directory listing from our main VMS cluster:

MPCASM.DOC;1         24-NOV-1980 16:33:05.00
MPCASM.EXE;1         24-NOV-1980 16:33:06.00
TEKLIB.OLB;1         24-NOV-1980 16:33:14.66

Now the hardware is considerably newer than the files, but I can guarantee
that I don't have the sources for these. (MPCASM is an assembler for a 6800
and TEKLIB is a library for Tektronix 4010 terminals...).

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