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One of my first jobs involved a company whose systems were written in custom Realia COBOL (for IBM PC, 64kb limits everywhere!), migrating functions out to dBas
by h2odragon 4y ago
One of my first jobs involved a company whose systems were written in custom Realia COBOL (for IBM PC, 64kb limits everywhere!), migrating functions out to dBase 3.
This started in 1986? and by 1990 they still hadn't ditched the old stuff but did a synchronization operation between the two database systems every night. It was sort of like replication but with a serial cable involved. Half the staff wouldn't give up the old interfaces.