[ALUG] Fwd: [NOC] Windows XP support ends in April

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Am 16.4.2014 10:44, schrieb Chris Minja:
> Don't be amazed by that there are some bottling automated machine are 
> still
> based on windows 98' n they are still in use

Win 98. A real youngster compared to this dinosaurs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11

There a many still in productive use.

BTW: No other architecture was longer produced and sold: PDP-11 was sold 
from 1970 to mid 90's.
C was created to port UNIX from a PDP-6 to a PDP-11.
GE Canada was last year looking for a PDP programmer 
http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?37827-Greetings-from-GE-Canada
because of:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/19/nuke_plants_to_keep_pdp11_until_2050

Andreas