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Re:Amstrad Emailer, the UK’s first smartphone by stevekemp on Thursday March 09, 2023 @10:33AM (#35082244)
Microfocus is a name I've not heard in a good few years - the last time I heard of them was for their COBOL compilers, on SCO Unixware.
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Re:Amstrad Emailer, the UK’s first smartphone by mark_undoio on Thursday March 09, 2023 @01:26PM (#35084754)
They're still making COBOL compilers, as far as I know - targeting Linux and with some modern style Dev tools too.

I guess it's a migration path for people getting rid of big iron but unable or uninterested in getting rid of the code they ran.

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