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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse (www.wired.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Probably a mix of Z systems, that stuff goes back 20-odd years, and even then older code can still run on new Z systems which is something IBM brags about.
Mainframes aren't old they're just niche technology, and that includes enterprise Java software.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Think further back. Like late 80s to 90s IBM

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's what they said, 20 years or so ago

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Ok this is gonna hurt. 2005 was 20 years ago