cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/43269341
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/codebase
::: spoiler Alt text And when Babbage arrived the whole thing was actually running on a series of Pascalines. :::
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Codebase
cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/43269341
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/codebase
::: spoiler Alt text And when Babbage arrived the whole thing was actually running on a series of Pascalines. :::
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4 Comments
disorderly@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 34d
My company recently acquired another and picked up some interesting legacy infrastructure: on-premises mainframes running COBOL. What I found particularly funny is that this system has deprecated but still in-use legacy components of its own, like a telnet server, and that this legacy component also has legacy components that may or may not still be in use (character mappings for specific teletypes that different remote clients used).
I guess that at some point, everything any of us do will become someone else's headache.
starchylemming@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 34d
for the lazy, since i already made the effort:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage
wjrii@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 34d
And inspired the original name of everbody's favorite meme-stock/would-be Ebay owner. Babbage's was always way classier than Games n Gadgets.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 34d
On a long enough time line, all technology runs on archiac magic.