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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
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On Sat, 07 Jun 2014 11:54:19 -0400, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> declaimed the
following:

>What was wrong with just running the original pdp-11 binaries on the VAX 
>in compatibility mode? :-)

	I suspect maintenance nightmare -- the systems being controlled kept
gaining capabilities that required modification to the ground control
software to command them.
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
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