Re: Degrees of Obsolescence
> 56-year-old IBM mainframe, as opposed to its 8-year-old descendant is also... unwise
Why? As long as you can get parts, people to fix it and people to code[1] for it then I don't see a problem..
[1] Even me (in a pinch) - many, many years ago I was a TPF[2] programmer on IBM mainframes. I probably still have a POPS manual somewhere at home..
[2] Which, at that time, only supported assembler. Which is why we were paid (relatively) well. Required a *lot* of effort to make sure stuff worked. And we also had a QA department with real teeth. When a catastrophic core-dump can take the mainframe down and cost you roughly $6m per hour (in early 90's money) you tend to be a bit careful about what you load..
Biting the hand that feeds IT
