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> Later on, Caltech lifted the limits on PDP-10 usage. Which was a good thing, because Empire consumed a lot of CPU resources :-/ Knowing Caltech, there's a 50
by throwup238 2y ago
> Later on, Caltech lifted the limits on PDP-10 usage. Which was a good thing, because Empire consumed a lot of CPU resources :-/
Knowing Caltech, there's a 50:50 chance that PDP is still running somewhere, torturing some poor postdoc in the astrophysics department because no one wants to upgrade it or port some old numerical code to a modern architecture.
- mk_stjames 2y agoIn the 2001 film "Swordfish", there was always a piece of dialogue that stood out to me where Hugh Jackman describes code for a computer worm he wrote in college as being hidden on a PDP-10 I.T.S. machine kept online for history's sake. It's shown and noted that his character went to Caltech. It is saying something that this might be the most plausible part of the film.
- WalterBright 2y agoI recall the computer used in "Demon Seed" was a PDP-10.