Back in the day, we used OS/2. We all had restful nights' sleep. Never once did it crash. Massive burn in was present on the screens of the monitors attached to these devices.

Love me some IBM. #bigblue

People would be amazed at how much decades old software is out there running critical systems in infrastructure, banking, etc. It's easy to forget, as we are pushed fancy new features so often, that the primary reason for software's existence is to automate tasks. If some code could do that in 1993, it can do that today.

I knew it was OS/2 before even opening it. I'm proud, honestly.

Disappointed it's not Amiga Workbench

Ye people should be terrified at the age of banking software, shit software devs at banks are terrified of that software. Most have no idea how the whole thing works either lol

They still have plenty of OS/2 running, but TBF Linux is pretty good too, if setup properly it’s really set it and forget it for 99.9% of the time

Cheers to RHEL an Debian

OS/2 is not forgotten. Its just Vice and similar don't know about it.

Should be moving to open source software for city facilities.

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This is one of the choppiest articles I've ever read.

Kinda like how the signal system has relays from the 20s and 50s that work perfectly fine. Things go wrong sometimes but not usually a relay instead something on the track or a mechanical issue with a motor causing issues

That's because it's legacy code with no documentation, notes, or guidance on outdated versions of an older programming language that isn't taught that much anymore.

So much of our banking industry is held up on stilts.

Good article. Well done. Yeah and banks still use COBOL. If it ain’t broke…

The problem is that it’s hard to hire new developers. Those that do get hired get paaaaaaid. I talked to an octogenarian COBAL guy who just couldn’t retire because they kept throwing money at him.

dunno about now but 20ya 80% of banks still ran on ibm mvs cobol

Yep, and cobol devs make bank cuz there’s so few of them