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From: greg@sce.carleton.ca (Greg Franks)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Speed costs
Message-ID: <854@sce.carleton.ca>
Date: 28 May 90 17:49:09 GMT
References: <2832@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: greg@sce.UUCP (Greg Franks)
Organization: Systems Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <2832@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:
>Which brings forth the argument in favor of progress.  How many people
>actually use PDP-11's anymore?  I've seen a few go in and out at garage sales.

Ontario Hydro's got nine at the Darlington NGS running the reactors.*
Maybe they replaced them with VAXes running PDP-11 emulation -
probably not though.  Back when the station was designed, chips like
the 68000 and 8088 did not even exist.  I wonder what's running the
Hubble Space telescope.  I'll bet it isn't an 88000, SPARC, 29K or
R3000.

* 256K and drum memory.  The older stations use Varian computers
(remember them?) and ancient IBM's with a whopping 32 kilowords of
store.  32 K to run a reactor - 600 K to edit its source code :-(.
-- 
Greg Franks, (613) 788-5726              |"The reason that God was able to
Systems Engineering, Carleton University,|create the world in seven days is
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada  K1S 5B6.        |that he didn't have to worry about
greg@sce.carleton.ca uunet!mitel!sce!greg|the installed base" -- Enzo Torresi