[Info-vax] How to Avoid Old Software, Old Bugs?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <h3373kFi1buU1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
<bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes: 

> It's also why, contrary to popular belief (or desire!), there is
> still so much COBOL, Fortran, PL/I and even RPG programs still out
> there in the production world.  It is also why the mainframe
> companies like IBM and Unisys have maintained complete compatibility
> with older systems.  Unisys still supports their original ACOB
> compiler which is basically ANSI 1974 COBOL.  

About 30 years ago, someone said "In 50 years, there will be only one 
computer company left, and its name will be IBM."  How many here 
remember when Sun, Silicon Graphics, HP, etc. were the new kids on the 
block with the cool hardware and software with all the geeks moving away 
from old-school stuff like IBM and DEC?  And where are those other 
vendors now?  And many of these people then moved in Linux and/or 
Windows.