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by idiotsecant 422 days ago
There are a lot of 'forever devices' currently touching money in major financial institutions.
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I spent a good chunk of my career in banking. I had many conversations to the effect of “see that RS/6000 in the corner of the network diagram? It processes $45bn in payments every day.”
did you work at Chase too
Yea, and armies of engineers supporting them.
More often in my experience, it’s one or two greybeards who have been there for 30 years, and are the only two people still in the workforce (or still alive) who understand how it works.