23 Jan
2017
23 Jan
'17
11:45 a.m.
On 2017-01-23 5:16 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 01/23/2017 11:00 AM, Steven Maresca wrote:
Thank God this could not happen today!
--T
Just wanted to share an excerpted story just sent
to me by a
colleague, regarding an IBM 7074 supplying data to Java middleware,
ultimately feeding a modern webapp stack:
http://thenewstack.io/happens-use-java-1960-ibm-mainframe/
The 7074 was referred to as a "supercomputer". Can any decimal machine
really bear that title?
The USAF used 7080s well into the 1980s--another decimal system. One of
the the reasons for doing so was a system implemented in 7080 COBOL with
miles and miles of undocumented Autocoder patches. No one person had
a full grasp of the resulting system and its nuances.
--Chuck