Well done. Has the hardware evolved?  I presume so, but I do remember one
legacy machine from the early 1980's at BTL (icarus, an 11/23), that when
it shut down forever in 1996, was a microvax, with its bus connected to a
standard PDP11 bus, that connected to a Q-bus, and the original discs were
still on line.  It's uptime was never more than 350+ days, though, because
of once a year UPS testing.  In its last incarnation, it did nothing but
mail routing, and that barely.  I don't think anything changed on it in the
last 10 years, not even the system.

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 1:15 PM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 4:02 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 1:58 PM Rich Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I think this makes minnie one of the longest running web services
>>>> still in existence :-)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Congrats. In a ship of Theseus sense.:)
>>>
>>
>> *We all sail in the Unix ship of Theseus..*. Every system today had code
>> from Unix directly, or from another ship that was built of the builts of
>> one that was split between a couple of groups. Yes, even Linux: lots of
>> networking userland came from BSD, for example, and while lots have been
>> rewritten, that's kinda the point of the ship of Theseus... :)
>>
> +1
> My observation is that Linux is just the current (and most
> successful) implementation of ideas that Doug, Ken, Rudd, Dennis, *et al.*
> started and others have contributed to over the years.  And like the
> thought experiment described, there is no reason why the ship can not be
> changed.  It still sails the same way to the same places.
>
>
> ᐧ
>


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James D. (jj) Johnston

Chief Scientist, Immersion Networks