Let me give you a more concrete reason to maintain legacy systems. We run a major set of COBOL applications developed under VAX/VMS, running under ACMS, utiliz

Let me give you a more concrete reason to maintain legacy systems. We run a major set of COBOL applications developed under VAX/VMS, running under ACMS, utilizing TDMS. Please note, I can barely spell some of these things, let alone grasp what they do. The application software that my predecessors wrote for these systems supports thousands of users, and is a vertical wall of technical debt. I am far from the decision-maker, but I run the corporate-mandated communication gateways. I just switched my bastions from stunnel-telnet to tinyssh-telnet. At least my keys don't expire now, and the crypto is strict DJB. We make due with what we have. I do the best I can. I respect the work of those that came before (and it signs my paychecks).