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by ElectricalUnion 1315 days ago
> International banking systems still rely on mainframes that don't even support time sharing!

[citation needed]

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I think I mixed up this information with the fact that DOD is still running a cluster of IBM Series/1s to administer the US nuclear force. (pretty sure there's no time sharing). Definitely more interesting than international banking ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Automated_Command_an...