 Quote by D H
Shoot, there's a lab in JSC that still has working PDP-11s. Plus some excess PDP-11s used solely for spares. For whatever reason, they just don't want to upgrade. Their software works; why change? The funny thing: Just a few feet away from that dinosaur pit are several racks of blades!
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As quite a senior technical analyst for a tehnical support company I can think of quite a few reasons they will be staying on old architecture!
Processing power in general now is insane compared to what Nasa had to work with in previous years.
I have heard it said there is more processing power in a modern smartphone CPU than in the entire Nasa programme in the 60's. A little off-topic bnut just thought I would add a little trivia.
