Den 2021-07-07 kl. 01:54, skrev Paul Koning:
People screaming about things like this usually think of old mainframe systems as they run Windows 2000...On Jul 6, 2021, at 5:55 PM, Alexander Schreiber <als%thangorodrim.ch@localhost> wrote:...Come to think of it, there are even people who earn a living, or part of one, from PDP-11 systems.IIRC a lot of those are often deep inside industrial systems - you don't throw away millions of $ of perfectly serviceable industrial hardware because the control system doesn't run the newest OS. In fact, _not_ running the newest, shiniest, cloud-connected OS on your industrial control plane is probably a plus wrt to operational stability these days.And its close relative, system security. You don't have to worry much about Putin's cronies if you're running RSX or RSTS/E. I'm always amazed when I hear people complaining about the "security issues" of old mainframe systems that "urgently need to be replaced by modern systems". You don't find viruses in OS/360, but they are a dime a dozen in the most popular modern OS, and new holes are created daily by hordes of modern sloppy programmers.
-- R