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SABRE dates from 1960 and is by some reckonings the very first piece of commercial (non-military, non-academic) software in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org
by rippercushions 4y ago
SABRE dates from 1960 and is by some reckonings the very first piece of commercial (non-military, non-academic) software in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(travel_reservation_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(travel_reservation_syst...
- fbdab103 4y agoThat is a tremendously fun fact! The little background things that keep society running. May I never be cursed enough I would ever have to directly work with such a system.
- ShredKazoo 4y agoI wonder if it will ever go away.
- noisy_boy 4y agoEven if this incident is the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back, the migration itself would be a multi-year project.
- rippercushions 4y agoI don't think SABRE has anything to do with Southwest's outage.
- xeromal 4y agoIt'll probably never go away, but just be layered over like civilizations. Eventually our software is probably going to get so complicated that we just build new software to interact with old software to avoid ever fully shutting it down. Like building a fresh highway on the oregon trail
- dredmorbius 4y agoAnd it's mainframe / COBOL, not DOS, which post-dates it by about a decade and a half. It's not even an ASCII text app, but an EBCDIC one. Or was after EBCDIC was defined as a standard, after SABRE itself launched.