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US nuclear missiles still use 8-inch floppy disks. Presumably on some 8-bit micro from the time. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/01/floppy-disk-nuclear-m
by spitfire 11y ago
US nuclear missiles still use 8-inch floppy disks. Presumably on some 8-bit micro from the time.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/01/floppy-disk-nuclear-missile-minuteman_n_5243367.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/01/floppy-disk-nuclear...
And of course we're still using operating systems from the 70's - Unix (in Linux form) and VMS (in Windows form).
EDIT: Typo, Corrected 80's to 70's.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoWindows is based on VMS? Huh? If anything, it's based on DOS and OS/2 (NT).
- njl 11y agoDave Cutler was a lead for VMS, then left DEC for Microsoft and led the development of Windows NT.
- mahmud 11y agoWhat you consider today "Windows" is actually Windows NT. Dave Cuttler was a lead architect of both NT and VMS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler Cuttler and a core of VMS team exited en masse to work on NT. In fact, he coined the term "WNT" as a play on "VMS", each letter is a successor to the corresponding one. (c.f. IBM <==> HAL) http://windowsitpro.com/windows-client/windows-nt-and-vms-rest-story http://windowsitpro.com/windows-client/windows-nt-and-vms-re...
- AnthonyMouse 11y agoUnix and VMS are both from the 70s.
- mahmud 11y agoUnix the kernel is from the 70s. Unix the userland is from today. Unix the API is eternal! :-)