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by bigiain 3113 days ago
Worse, it's probably an emulation of a Unix mainframe running the original Cobol code - with the emulator running in machine generated JavaScript in Nodejs on AWS...

(Obligatory xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/1926/ )
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azernik 3113 days ago
No, more likely it's a newer IBM mainframe, as those are built to be backwards-compatible with software written back in the 60s.
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madaxe_again 3113 days ago
A large bank in the uk runs their core software on AS400s emulating a 1401. Their ledger software is almost 60 years old.
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