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Re:Pi calculation world record with over 202T digits by throwup238 on Monday July 15, 2024 @04:51PM (#40971363)
> Later on, Caltech lifted the limits on PDP-10 usage. Which was a good thing, because Empire consumed a lot of CPU resources :-/

Knowing Caltech, there's a 50:50 chance that PDP is still running somewhere, torturing some poor postdoc in the astrophysics department because no one wants to upgrade it or port some old numerical code to a modern architecture.

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Re:Pi calculation world record with over 202T digits by mk_stjames on Monday July 15, 2024 @07:46PM (#40972479)
In the 2001 film "Swordfish", there was always a piece of dialogue that stood out to me where Hugh Jackman describes code for a computer worm he wrote in college as being hidden on a PDP-10 I.T.S. machine kept online for history's sake. It's shown and noted that his character went to Caltech.

It is saying something that this might be the most plausible part of the film.

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Re:Pi calculation world record with over 202T digits by WalterBright on Monday July 15, 2024 @09:52PM (#40973063)
I recall the computer used in "Demon Seed" was a PDP-10.
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