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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 22:30:59 JST nixCraft 🐧

   That is AS400 from IBM. Although discounted by IBM, it is still in production in many places running mission-critical apps. It's far better than the stuff people write today. This is how reliability looks. Why break it when it works?

   • Joel Pomales (joelpomales@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 22:41:08 JST Joel Pomales

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     @nixCraft written, probably, in COBOL. That code probably has been running happy for 30 years. 😂

   • Stefan Scholl (stefan_s_from_h@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 23:11:28 JST Stefan Scholl

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     @nixCraft PWRDWNSYS *IMMED

   • Joshua Haller (jjhaller@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 23:25:34 JST Joshua Haller

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     @nixCraft software, like most of what is built today (phones, cars, computers, etc) seems to be hastily built with the intention of you paying to replace it for a more expensive product. Was driving around with a photography friend yesterday in his 15 year old car and you wouldn't have noticed it was that old.

   • Fabian (xeroc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 23:35:24 JST Fabian

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     @nixCraft meanwhile Deutsche Bahn looking for Sysadmin for Windows 3.11

   • 10tothe22 (10tothe22@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 00:03:56 JST 10tothe22

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     @nixCraft

     Find me an ERP that scales and automates NOT on System i.

     I mean all major retailers are using IBM. Green screen is fast.

   • guilhermegnzaga (guilhermegnzaga@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 00:20:38 JST guilhermegnzaga

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     @nixCraft Here in Brazil is harder to find systems like these even if they had existed before

   • GoatsLive (goatslive@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 00:21:56 JST GoatsLive

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     @nixCraft We used it to our our television station advertising traffic and billing system. It's a work horse!

   • Charlie (boscozebra@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 00:51:14 JST Charlie

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     @nixCraft whataburger was using some amazingly low tech things back in the mid 2010s. Tech is nice, but I think people overstate the utility a lot.

   • Chris Lovett (realchrislovett@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 00:59:12 JST Chris Lovett

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     @nixCraft Also used by State agencies, such as public schools…

   • words_number (words_number@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 04:50:16 JST words_number

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     @nixCraft True, and it's going to become worse! Now we have hard to maintain agile JS codebases. In the near future we will have impossible to maintain agile JS codebases written using fabulating AI bullshitters.

   • MegatronicThronBanks (megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 07:14:31 JST MegatronicThronBanks

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     @nixCraft Does it work perfectly?