Re: Railways and the Millennium Bug
David Bromage (dbromage@metz.une.edu.au)
29 Apr 1998 03:20:26 GMT
Matthew Geier (matthew@mail.usyd.edu.au) wrote:
> State Rail is still rather dependant on route setting computer logic
>implemented on DEC PDP11 systems. Such a control system is a prime canditate
>for failure. Its old, contains much hard to maintain code, and likely to be
>still in use due to no funds available to replace it.
They found enough money to get desktop PCs for the administrators, all of
which would be more powerful than a PDP11. It's not THAT expensive to
upgrade to, say, a PC running some sort of Unix. I bet even your Amiga is
more powerful!
Cheers
David