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So, for context, UW's registration system runs on, like, a single 1980s VAX.

• lupire 2y ago
  I didn't know VAX had web APIs. Do you know that software can be used to build a wrapper layer around other software?
  • twodave 2y ago
    It's much easier to build a gateway API for a legacy system than to extend it. Not disagreeing with you. Honestly, though, software systems for academic institutions are ridiculously complicated, because they are essentially a student portal, a school, a sales organization, a rules engine, etc. etc. all wrapped up into one and interconnected in ways that aren't obvious on the surface.
• confidentlyinc 2y ago
  That is confidently incorrect
• dpedu 2y ago
  The school I attended in 2010 had a system like this as well. Awful backend with a simple, but still awful, web interface to talk to it. There was rumor you could telnet in and use an actual text interface, but I never saw it. The system was replaced a few years later with an Oracle PeopleSoft implementation. Everybody hated it more.