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Subject: Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?
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On 4/3/25 2:12 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 06:52:14 -0400, c186282 wrote:
> 
>>     So yea, I can perfectly believe they're keeping 360s and such alive
>>     and working ...
> 
> Technically the System/360 was succeeded by the System/370 in 1970. They
> skipped 380 and went to System/390. However there is a lot of backward
> compatibility so the Zs can run a lot of the legacy software.

   But WHAT are the SSA and IRS still running in
   the basement ?  :-)

   The 360/370 boxes WERE really popular, so I'm
   gonna GUESS there's a least one or two still
   chugging away. Maint cost would be insane these
   days ... but you can kinda bury that in the
   budget while new hardware stands out more and
   in more places.