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I had a job maintaining fortran code on an openVMS OS running on itanium hardware. Itanium was intel's failed attempt at a 64bit architecture and that's the platform VMS decided to port to. That made hardware expensive and as of recently obsolete (i think hp discontinued that integrity line of servers) VMS doesn't natively support TCP/IP, because it predates it. The VMS communication protocol was called decnet. So yo…
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That's insane. A 3d matrix of ferrite rings suspended by wire would seem (to me) somewhat sensitive to vibrations or gforces. Military gonna military I guess.
The same technology was very successfully used to fly to the moon. Cores aren’t so much suspended when they are wholly embedded in epoxy.
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I really don't want to judge your ability, I agree with your comment about C#, Java, JS, C ,... but COBOL is a completely different animal to reason with. Been there and ran as fast as I could.
Sounds interesting. Can you point me to a COBOL listing that shows some of this difference?
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The same technology was very successfully used to fly to the moon. Cores aren’t so much suspended when they are wholly embedded in epoxy.
Stupid question, but the cores don't physically flip, do they? It's a purely electrical thing?
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I really don't want to judge your ability, I agree with your comment about C#, Java, JS, C ,... but COBOL is a completely different animal to reason with. Been there and ran as fast as I could.
Sounds interesting. Can you point me to a COBOL listing that shows some of this difference?
I don’t know COBOL though so I can’t say if this code is idiomatic or not.
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Also seems pretty low for a team that size. I would love to know their cost per line...
In aerospace, a hyphen might well be worth $80 million. https://priceonomics.com/the-typo-that-destroyed-a-space-shu...
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You should apply, and demand an insanely-high salary while pointing out that almost no one has VAX experience now.
When we retired my wife and I fled Atlanta at top speed. I don't know if the job is in Marietta, GA or Ft. Worth (the job listing seems to have disappeared) but I doubt if even an insanely high salary could get us to move to either of those locations.
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The program knows it's being wasteful. It is just limited in what it can do about it. Mainly because the same kinds of thinking used to get the program into this mess are what's being tried to get the program out of this mess. Einstein had the definitive quote on how well that works. "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
"Einstein had the definitive quote" I think you're thinking of Mark Twain.