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> retain the ability to run programs written a quarter of a decade ago I think I've seen computers with more uninterrupted uptime than that, even if servers. O
by aasasd 5y ago
> retain the ability to run programs written a quarter of a decade ago
I think I've seen computers with more uninterrupted uptime than that, even if servers. Or at least approaching this figure.
Perhaps you meant ‘quarter of a millennium’ or something like that.
- Stratoscope 5y agoI know Enterprise customers require extreme backward compatibility, but it must be a fairly small number who are still running legacy code written in 1771.
- aasasd 5y agohttps://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/jacquard-loom-simulator/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/jacquard-loom-simulator/ https://github.com/jfinkels/analyticalengine https://github.com/jfinkels/analyticalengine https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/emulator.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/emulator.html
- Stratoscope 5y agoI stand corrected, and awed. Thank you! I had the good fortune to see the Babbage Engine in action when it was at the Computer History Museum. Only got a few photos, but here they are (plus an unrelated photo of a core memory plane): https://geary.smugmug.com/Computers/History/ https://geary.smugmug.com/Computers/History/ https://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/ https://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/