[geeks] Oldest OS Still Developed

[Mike Meredith]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:46:41 -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> IBM must hold the record for how long they'll support a system.

Well some of the early 360s had a hardware(?) emulator for the 1401
(from 1959). I have a distant memory (so very suspect) of that being
replaced with a software emulator, so it is feasible that 1401 code can
still be run on a modern IBM mainframe ?

Work runs a finance package (not homegrown) which allegedly still has
punched cards flying around the inside of it. Given that it still relies
on COBOL and does things to Oracle that turns any sane Oracle DBA white
and shaking, I can believe it.

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