15 Oct
2013
15 Oct
'13
6:52 a.m.
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-comput...
1982.. 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.