Vax, PDP/11, HP3000 and Others Live On In the Cloud

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 7, 2014 @03:09PM from the cloud-of-the-living-dead dept.

judgecorp writes: Surprisingly, critical applications still rely on old platforms, although legacy hardware is on its last legs. Swiss emulation expert Stromasys is offering emulation in the cloud for old hardware using a tool cheekily named after Charon, the ferryman to the afterlife. Systems covered include the Vax and PDP/11 platforms from Digital Equipment (which was swallowed by Compaq and then HP) as well as Digital's Alpha RISC systems, and HP's HP3000. It also offers Sparc emulation, although Oracle might dispute the need for this.

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Re:This shit is why managers think the cloud works by jockm · 2014-10-07 16:26 · Score: 1, Flamebait

And why not? It is easy to say that newer is better, but if you can cut costs of running the legacy hardware, and buy the time to work on other things AND work on replacing the legacy system then why not? It sounds like a perfectly reasonable use of resources to me.

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