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by gaius 5456 days ago
"Janky"? You're right, they should have used Ruby on Rails. And, ermm, AJAX 2.0.

I'm sick of people slamming old tech with 50 years of hindsight. They were the smartest people in the world doing the best work they could with what they had available to them. And that's what they came up with - and it got the job done.

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And those IBM mainframes are massively more reliable than the crap (software and hardware) we use today.