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The company i work for is using a C64 mainboard for controling some production equipment... and there are ABSOLUTELY no plans to move to anything different. Is
by RalfWausE 3y ago
The company i work for is using a C64 mainboard for controling some production equipment... and there are ABSOLUTELY no plans to move to anything different. Is this system deprecated from a technological standpoint? Yes, absolutely. But on the other hand it is a super stable solution that will work tomorrow in the same way as it has worked the last 30 years (and with the whole retro computing scene around spare parts will be no big issue in the forseeable future).
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoBut it will be an issue _eventually_... hopefully you'll be able to move the workload onto a VM / emulator easily.
- hef19898 3y agoDepends on the equipment. Either it is physically dismantled by then, or people find ways to keep it running. No joke, I worked at sites than ran production equipment from the interwar period and, in one case, the early 1900s. If it is profitable, and you are allowed to run it fornenvironmental reasons, it will run forna long, long time indeed regardless of tech (controlers, chips, software) used in running. By the way, those pre-pre-war stuff ran in the southern part of Germany. So funds and avaiaibility for newequipment was not a big issue in the literal century+ since it was built.