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by andrewg 2537 days ago
Specifically they run IBM zTPF on their mainframes, which is also used by airlines. Some installations have uptimes measured in decades.

https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/transaction-processi...
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wereHamster 2537 days ago
It's rarely the hardware that fails, it's more often due to software. So I wonder what the software that's running on mainframes does differently than the software that's written for ordinary computers.
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Terretta 2537 days ago
> So I wonder what the software that's running on mainframes does differently than the software that's written for ordinary computers.

Not change.

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southerndrift 2537 days ago
May it's not what it does but that it is written in COBOL?
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