SCO.com and Caldera.com dead

[James Knott]

Keith Mastin wrote:
>>I wonder what server has been ruunning without a reboot or power
>>failure  since 1986? Not a web server!
>>
>>It must be something important enough to continue running, but not so
>>important it ever needed a faster CPU or larger hard drive. I suppose
>>it's still running on 1Mbit coax ethernet.
> 
> 
> FAA air traffic control system? I know it's mostly still running on old
> tube machines, but no idea how long since the last reboot on some of the
> dinosaurs. It probably isn't anythng connected to the public network, or
> the outdated kernels would have been hacked all to hell by now.
> 

How do you know that?  I had read quite a while ago, that they were 
still running some ancient radars in Canada, but they were being phased 
out, because of lack of parts.  A tube computer would date back to the 
mid fifties at the latest and wouln't be as powerful as a pocket 
calculator.  Tube computers were also extremely unreliable (I used to 
maintain & repair one in the Toronto Stock Exchange.) and not the kind 
of thing you'd want to trust someone's life to.


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