BugheadTorpeda6

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   by BugheadTorpeda6 1y ago

   It's one of the last platforms that people still write a lot of hand written assembly for. Part of this is down to the assembler being very ergonomic and there being a very capable macro system available with macros provided for most s
2. 32.▲
   by BugheadTorpeda6 1y ago

   It's probably more on the order of a thousand or so mainframe systems delivered per year, based on average lifespan of one of these systems and the ~10,000 or so existing mainframe customers. Then you have to consider that each CPC dra
3. 33.▲
   by BugheadTorpeda6 1y ago

   It sounds like you are referring to AS/400 and successors (common mistake, no biggie) rather than the mainframes being referred to here that are successors of System 360 and use the Telum chips (as far as I am aware they have never bee
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   by BugheadTorpeda6 1y ago

   For applications or middlewares and systems and utilities? For applications, COBOL is king, closely followed by Java for stuff that needs web interfaces. For middleware and systems and utilities etc, assembly, C, C++, REXX, Shell, and proba