Daily Archives: 2022-02-28

Article note: Neat. I sort of distantly knew Unisys was still supporting the direct ancestors of Burroughs MCP from 1961 as ClearPath MCP - ported through a language change in the 70s and several architecture changes over they years - but you can literally run the direct descendant of MCP as a hosted environment on Windows on commodity x86_64 hardware _as a supported configuration_, and the latest release was just last year.

Article note: We really should be running manufacturing more-or-less on "Battlestar Galactica" protocols. There's no reason to plug that shit directly into an Internet-connected network. ... Or, to make another reference You hooked it up to the ~~phone~~ Network, didn't you? Dade! Turn the shower off! You screw up again and you ~~won't get into college~~ will break civilization!