PDP-11 Still Working In Nuclear Plants - For 37 More Years

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Taco Cowboy writes "Most of the younger /. readers never heard of the PDP-11, while we geezers have to retrieve bits and pieces of our affairs with PDP-11 from the vast warehouse inside our memory lanes." From the article: "HP might have nuked OpenVMS, but its parent, PDP-11, is still spry and powering GE nuclear power-plant robots and will do for another 37 years. That's right: PDP-11 assembler programmers are hard to find, but the nuclear industry is planning on keeping them until 2050 — long enough for a couple of generations of programmers to come and go." Not sure about the OpenVMS vs PDP comparison, but it's still amusing that a PDP might outlast all of the VAX machines. http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=PDP-11+Still+Working+In+Nuclear+Plants+-+For+37+More+Years%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F19QT0M d) http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org% 2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F19%2F1227244%2Fpdp-11-still-working-in-nuclear-plants---for-37-more-years%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfaceb ook) http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png (http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/06/19/1227244/pdp-11-still-working-in-nuclear-plants---for-37-more-years?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=googleplus)

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