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  • Just to boast my old timer credentials.

    There is an utility program in IBM’s mainframe operating system, z/OS, that has been there since the 60s.

    It has just one assembly code instruction: a BR 14, which means basically ‘return’.

    The first version was bugged and IBM had to issue a PTF (patch) to fix it.

  • The EU will not tax products which are critical for the European economy until/unless there is a viable local alternative.

    What I expect the EU to do is to subsidise those fledging local alternatives. And yes, this is against WTO rules, but I guess nobody cares about that anymore.

  • To give some context, originally a ‘nazareno’ is somebody paying penitence for sins committed since last years Easter. Part of their ‘penitence’ is to march in procession covered with those robes. The ‘capirote’ (the hood) is intended to keep those sinners (that could be important or well known people) anonymous.

    I’m not sure if this is still valid today or if it’s now just a performance. Someone from the south of Spain will more about that than myself.

  • Not just games. Full operating systems from the 60s and 70s are being kept alive by hobbyists. Unfortunately there is no law or rule about proprietary/company specific software. In 50 years (or less) historians will know more about how the Romans did banking than how it was done in the early days of computing.

  • Banking IT engineer here.

    In our case, everything ‘core’: checking and savings accounts, loans and credits, credit and debit cards… anything requiring a sub-second response time while being bombarded with tens of thousands of transactions per second AND requiring strict ACID transactions end to end AND 24x7 availability with quick recovery in case of disaster.

    Secondary stuff is being moved to other architectures. And new core stuff is being written in Java… and ran on the mainframe.