Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux? Date: 5 Apr 2025 19:20:25 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net fsmAMF0wT+GXdbqKBnBv2gwaTSUPI87ZXkvrJvrvBMErH/Mi4I Cancel-Lock: sha1:b+9jzE+P2a8f+7ZYu/C69f2VKcU= sha256:UehHk9e1RkU04K0wR9fyGZ18sIjElGPGxoU1CTL31rc= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:688673 comp.os.linux.misc:66904 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.'