[FreeVMS] PDP-11 Still Working In Nuclear Plants - For 37 More Years

[remi.chateauneu at gmail.com]

"Most of the younger /. readers never heard of the PDP-11, while we 
geezers have to retrieve bits and pieces of our affairs with PDP-11 from 
the vast warehouse inside our memory lanes." From the article: "HP might 
have nuked OpenVMS, but its parent, PDP-11, is still spry and powering 
GE nuclear power-plant robots and will do for another 37 years. That's 
right: PDP-11 assembler programmers are hard to find, but the nuclear 
industry is planning on keeping them until 2050 — long enough for a 
couple of generations of programmers to come and go." Not sure about the 
OpenVMS vs PDP comparison, but it's still amusing that a PDP might 
outlast all of the VAX machines.

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/06/19/1227244/pdp-11-still-working-in-nuclear-plants---for-37-more-years