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by sverige 3217 days ago
If the tip of the iceberg is automatic watering of gardens, the iceberg is nuclear power plants designed to run on PDP-11s.
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Nuclear power plants run critical systems on mostly analog and sometimes pld devices (much easier to formally verify). They also generally don't care about date-time and have rigorous testing/verification. Nuclear PP are not something to worry about for a 2038 bug. It's the industries that don't employ traditional engineering practices that are worrisome.
PDP-11s are 16-bit computers...
...which control at least one plant in Canada (though recently it was replaced with an emulation.)

And apparently they solved the 16-bit data problem, but maybe not the 32-bit date problem.

"A current generation DCC system resides at L3 MAPPS' main Montreal, Canada facility and is used to provide support to all participating COG members until 2035."

http://mapps.l3t.com/candu-plant-control-systems.html