Emulation or the real thing?

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Mon Oct 26 02:05:33 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...).

 Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au
 Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479 1999
 La Trobe University | "If God had wanted soccer played in the
 Melbourne Australia 3083 | air, the sky would be painted green"
Received on Mon Oct 26 1998 - 02:05:33 GMT