Oh, no. Of course not. Perish the thought. Sent from my Windows 10 phone
From: Toby Thain Sent: Monday, January 23, 2017 12:45 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: IBM 7074 and then some: "Systems we love" conference On 2017-01-23 5:16 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > On 01/23/2017 11:00 AM, Steven Maresca wrote: >> Just wanted to share an excerpted story just sent to me by a >> colleague, regarding an IBM 7074 supplying data to Java middleware, >> ultimately feeding a modern webapp stack: >> http://thenewstack.io/happens-use-java-1960-ibm-mainframe/ > > The 7074 was referred to as a "supercomputer". Can any decimal machine > really bear that title? > > The USAF used 7080s well into the 1980s--another decimal system. One of > the the reasons for doing so was a system implemented in 7080 COBOL with > miles and miles of undocumented Autocoder patches. No one person had > a full grasp of the resulting system and its nuances. Thank God this could not happen today! --T > > --Chuck > >
