On 15/10/13 17:13, Lev Lafayette wrote:On Tue, October 15, 2013 4:46 pm, Petros wrote:http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/30yearold-railway-computers-take-a-byte-out-of-the-past-20131014-2vitp.html1982.. 1982? What do they use here?I've heard constant rumours of a PDP-11 :)
I've been told they're VAXen, although if they run VMS the hardware
could now be Alphas or Itanics. (RIP VMS)
A former colleague went to work for the company that does some of this
kit, according to him one of the problems they had was the staff/union
refusing to accept any change in UI so they needed to develop a
text-based UI that was identical to the old systems, including for the
visualisations.
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