[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-08-23 20:23, ChrisQ wrote:
> On 08/23/12 17:57, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> On 2012-08-23 19:00, Bob Koehler wrote:
>>> In article <wCsZr.810$Re2.517 at fx06.am4>, ChrisQ <meru at devnull.com>
>>> writes:
>>>> On 08/23/12 13:25, Bob Koehler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Just try that on an 18 bit computer. Or a 36 bit computer.
>>>>
>>>> Not really relevant. They were built when, in 1965, or even earlier ?.
>>>
>>> I haven't seen one built since the 1980s.
>>>
>>> I haven't seen one in use since, um, right now.
>>>
>>> That one needs to stay in use until about 2018, but a few more years
>>> would be great.
>>
>> You are just not looking in the right places... :-)
>>
>> Johnny
>>
>
> Agreed and there may be thousands of pdp11 and vax machines still
> doing a stalwart job, but they are hardly current practice, are they ?.

Well, the PDP-11 also isn't 18 or 36 bits... ;-)

> Anyway, didn't mean to denigrate, have quite a collection of older h/w
> myself and even use it from time to time :-)...

To be honest, I know of plenty of PDP-11s still running and doing their 
work in all kind of places, even though most people don't know about it. 
But they are not getting much, if any new installations.

But I know that there are PDP-10s on a chip being produced even today, 
and are in equipment that exists in a lot of places...

	Johnny