Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?
Date	2025-04-05 19:20 +0000
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On Sat, 5 Apr 2025 11:41:11 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Project I worked on was undersea repeater for optical cables.
> Probably the worst organised and specified project ever, but that's a by
> the by. They said 'you are lucky we are allowed to use a silicon
> processor, up to 5 years ago we had to use germanium' 'Why?' Because
> that was the only technology more than 15 years old that could be
> guaranteed to last the 15 years'

When we built sequential runway lighting controllers the wire harnesses 
had to be laced because the nylon ties used in industry hadn't had a 
couple of decades of use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_lacing

Luckily all our techs were women, most of whom had knitting or macrame 
skills. The heart of the system was an electro-mechanical stepper that was 
also mostly obsolete in industry.

The SSA probably has people saying 'Rust? Well maybe after it's proven 
itself for 60 years like COBOL.'

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Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-03-29 09:38 +0000
  Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-03-30 03:42 -0400
    Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-03-30 17:58 +0000
      Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2025-03-31 03:08 +0000
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            Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-03-31 13:59 +0000
              Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-03-31 17:38 +0000
                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-03-31 18:55 +0000
            Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-04-01 10:16 -0400
              Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2025-04-01 14:40 +0000
                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-04-01 11:08 -0400
                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-01 18:08 +0000
                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-04-01 21:22 +0000
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                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-04-01 23:32 -0400
                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-02 11:40 +0100
                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-04-02 16:04 -0400
                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-02 22:46 +0200
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                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-03 07:28 +0000
                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-04-03 10:53 -0400
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                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-03 10:53 +0100
                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-03 13:44 +0200
                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-03 18:26 +0000
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                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-04 06:00 +0000
                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-04-06 08:52 +0000
                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-06 10:14 +0100
                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-04-06 11:13 +0000
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                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-04-01 22:07 -0400
        Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-03-31 04:46 -0400
        Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-03-31 11:53 +0100
          Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-03-31 17:36 +0100
            Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2025-04-03 02:38 +0000
              Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-03 10:59 +0100
              Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-04-03 06:52 -0400
                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-03 12:10 +0100
                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-03 18:12 +0000
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                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-04 09:38 +0100
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                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-05 11:41 +0100
                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-05 19:20 +0000
                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-05 20:23 +0100
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                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-07 12:20 +0100
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                Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-05 12:13 +0100
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