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by bluedino 2672 days ago
I've come across code on IBM System i (AS/400) with copyrights from the late 70's. The code still works, plenty of businesses run on it, and it was written quite nicely.
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The core code base dates back to the System/38, which was released in 1979. You might expect to find a whole series of older to newer dates in copyright notices for the AS/400 (which is not its correct name now, and hasn't been for ages) code base, but the copyright laws have changed a few times over recent decades and I don't know what the current requirements are.