| ▲ | loph 2 days ago | |
Some businesses are still using DEC PDP-11s, first released in the 1970s. Those are even more "ancient." Many of these are used for industrial controls, among other applications. see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505421 The article does not mention what OS is being used, but RT-11 was designed for "real-time" applications. That was released in 1973, so over 50 years ago. | ||
| ▲ | estimator7292 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
IBM is still producing mainframe systems to this day. More modern for sure, but still fundamentally an ancient system and architecture | ||
| ▲ | tim333 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Gosh - I'm surprised those still run. That the first computer I used back in 1978 or so. I see there's an emulator, SIMH, that will let you run PDP-11 stuff on Linux. | ||