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One of the many other articles that have been floating around the past few days mentioned that Treasury has a bunch of programs written in an old IBM architectu
by Kadin 10y ago
One of the many other articles that have been floating around the past few days mentioned that Treasury has a bunch of programs written in an old IBM architecture's version of assembler.
- chx 10y agoBingo! I just found http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/government-agencies-keep-sacrificing-cash-to-zombie-it-systems-gao-finds/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/govern... mentioning both Individual Master File and Business Master File written in IBM mainframe assembler 56 years ago. Joy. Although I suspect it's a bit of an exaggeration because it seems the IRS is using System/360 which started 1965 https://books.google.ca/books?id=HwniRloeB6cC&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=ibm+360+irs+%22master+file%22&source=bl&ots=DNqni9DXg1&sig=ag4xDy_ERLUjJeslLy3sIq5rUks&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwix8Krp_PnMAhUGyWMKHfoGA0sQ6AEIKjAB#v=onepage&q=ibm%20360%20irs%20%22master%20file%22&f=false https://books.google.ca/books?id=HwniRloeB6cC&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2...