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?
@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.
@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.
@nixCraft I worked with IBM during the time a lot for these were being torn out for GUI applications, and I have to say, every time, "it's old and a bit arcane but it works" was replaced with "this damn thing is so slow, needs IT calls every week, and doesn't let me do what I need to do". Almost always, some subcontracted pile of Java running on a touchscreen against some pile of SQLite crap syncing to an Oracle DB.
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