Re:1980s computer controls Grand Rapids Public School heat a...
by beambot on Friday June 12, 2015 @02:01PM
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Until a single point of failure hits and you're in a mad-scramble to get a replacement system up and running.
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Re:1980s computer controls Grand Rapids Public School heat a...
by nickpsecurity on Friday June 12, 2015 @08:10PM
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Exactly! That's the ultimate problem with these kinds of systems. It's why I advocate incrementally re-engineering a compatible system onto modern hardware and standards. Not even anything fancy necessarily: just easy to maintain, portable, and fast enough. Companies like Semantic Designs even make source-to-source compilers that do bug-for-bug translations. I'm sure we could do dynamic translation of binaries for the dependencies, too, although I'm not sure anyone does that.