Disasters and Recovery

From: Brett Crapser <brett_at_xnet.com>
Date: Mon Jan 18 18:55:31 1999

On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Jerome Fine wrote:
> The question is which system is more likely
> to be able to run in 36 years:
> (a) A real MicroPDP-11
> (b) Some sort of OS and hardware which can run W95

(A) is the answer - as (B) can not be done reliably even today 8-)

> which is presently able to run the E11 PDP-11 emulator by John Wilson?

Well I vote for the PDP-11 - get some spares and set them aside - every
5 years swap the spares in the machine to make sure they still work.
Fix anything that doesn't - been working for me for 10 years...

BC
Received on Mon Jan 18 1999 - 18:55:31 GMT