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Ask HN: Oldest Code Still in Production
Hi HN
What's the oldest code you've ever seen in production, as in it's still running.
I'm imagining a very cheesey Netflix movie where our protagonist has to fix some code her late grandfather wrote. And in fixing this code she's able to connect with him.
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- iab 5y agoUptime: Objects in the working-tree may appear closer than they are
- gregjor 5y agoFortran/assembly code dating from the 1960s, running electrical power distribution and commercial billing for a federal agency. That was in 1999-2000. As far as I know that system is still running today.