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

[Scott Dorsey]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>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.

"IBM is not a computer company.  IBM is a business solutions company."
    -- T.J. Watson, Jr.
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