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You'll most likely find it in large companies that operated in the 60s or 70s that haven't switched to anything new, mostly because their core business runs on
by Hikikomori 3y ago
You'll most likely find it in large companies that operated in the 60s or 70s that haven't switched to anything new, mostly because their core business runs on it.
I know of two companies, and at least one still use it, had several summer jobs there. They make sheet metal rolls by flattening out train cart sized hunks of steel, and while the mainframe system didn't run the machines (operators and PLC handled that) it kept track of everything, inventory, logistics and planning. I used it to plan rail shipments, where to put each roll of sheet metal on a train and loaded them up.
- pdw 3y agoThat could have been a mainframe, but I think factories are much more likely to be using AS/400 aka IBM i. That runs on regular IBM Power servers these days.
- avgDev 3y agoCan confirm. Work for a midsize manufacturer. Core of the business is on AS/400 and DB2. Although a lot of new development is happening in C#/SQL/.NET and BLAZOR.
- tristor 3y agoOh, fun times. I've been on the other side of that business in my past life, where I had to "revive" a business critical program written in VB3 (yes for Windows 3.x) after a computer migration that was used to calculate the weight of an aluminum or steel coil/roll via its dimensions so it could be input into the PLC for the feeder mechanism at the beginning of a production line that did forming/extruding of metals. So on one end mainframes, on the other ends software written for DOS and Windows 3.x still being used in (at the time the 2010s) to keep critical infrastructure for manufacturing running.