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by chasil 1659 days ago
I arrived in my position in the late 90's, greeted by HP-UX, VAX VMS, and Unisys OS2200.

All of this was tied by our homegrown queue software.

Some years later, I was tasked with migrating HP-UX to Linux, in stages, and I was lucky enough to have found all the queueing source code, and I rebuilt it, imperfectly, on Linux. We hired back our past workers, including the original author, who made perfect my original port.

As the years have passed, I continued to improve this code, compiling with directives from "hardening-check" after bug hunts.

It has tied me to my role, but I suppose that I am happy here.