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re: Any of you know COBOL?
Posted on 4/8/20 at 5:33 pm to efrad
Posted on 4/8/20 at 5:33 pm to efrad
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Magnetic tape isn't an outdated technology. Private companies and datacenters still use it and the technology is still worked on and improved.
Right, but it's such a pain in the arse. If I had to choose between tape and disk to disk backup, it's D2D every time.
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Posted on 4/8/20 at 5:35 pm to StringMusic
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AS/400, still running green screen. Probably based on RPG and not COBOL. Almost as old, but still performs well.
Yup, lots of major retail POS systems are running on AS/400 and successor systems, because they are reliable AF and IBM goes to a lot of trouble to ensure that code base keeps working forever.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 5:40 pm to corneredbeast
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Yup, lots of major retail POS systems are running on AS/400 and successor systems, because they are reliable AF and IBM goes to a lot of trouble to ensure that code base keeps working forever.
Repeat after me, RISC, reduced instruction set computer.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 6:22 pm to FearlessFreep
Every bank out there is running some ancient software on a mainframe
Posted on 4/8/20 at 6:25 pm to FearlessFreep
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volunteers
I'll volunteer for 150 an hour.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 6:28 pm to narddogg81
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Every bank out there is running some ancient software on a mainframe
Every airline, too.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 6:31 pm to DavidTheGnome
I learned PASCAL in college, as well... C++ was already getting popular, but our Prof really loved him some PASCAL.
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