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Originally Posted by swake
What if they don't make the hardware anymore? What if the software is no longer supported or patchable?
Often these ancient systems are written in an archaic language on an OS that is no longer supported and designed to run on hardware that is no longer made.
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these questions are irrelevant. for SOME TIME now, the US govt agencies using such things are running N-1, meaning nothing in production, dev test and sandbox can be any older than the current, minus 1 version.
We automatically rust processors every 3 years and storage every 3-5 years.
again I ask, but I expand:
as originally asked, is anyone posting on this holding relative experience on these systems? not "I loaded tapes when asked to 40 years ago"
and expanded to: is anyone posting on this even a professional in the industry.
PS: the archaic language is often simply assembler. OR Cobol which we run as compiled now. There are plenty of break/fix paths available for every agency, the consternation is that only 2 colleges in the US teach them to undergrad and one of them I already did my adjunct tenure at.
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