It's altogether amazing.
You're probably correct, but it's more about if they would want to pick up a language that has no future, except maintenance of already existing systems. (see: Perl).
But there's excellent money in being a COBOL programmer. Some might be interested in that.
As someone who started programming in 1980, I feel your pain. My oldest spreadsheet goes back to 1995.
SSDs are random access, just not volatile like DRAM.
A tech-illiterate author/editor is the much more plausible explanation.
All of a sudden I had an urge to get MS-DOS to run with a SSD as memory. Unfortunately I know DOS can’t address 1TB of memory, but the mental image of it is hilarious.
[1] https://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.html
[2] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/micron-finally-rolls-3d-xp...
In the thirty years I spent developing software I spent hardly any time on anything that was accessible through the network and I'm confident that I'm not the only one. The embedded control software that I wrote for 6502s would still work today and would be completely invulnerable to attacks other than from someone standing right in front of the machine pushing buttons.
Of course now that everything has to be networked so that your fridge can advertise special offers to you the situation is changing for the worse.
What nonsense. the 90s is recent, not ancient.
The 90s were 30 years ago. Many a "Senior Software Engineer" hadn't even been born yet. Yeah, to them the 90s is ancient tech. Cut 'em some slack; they're just youngsters who don't really understand the world yet. It's the weekend, so grab your favorite beverage, kick back, and tune out to some ancient classical music--like the Beatles.
“The Voyager space missions were maintained by technology that would today be artefacts in a museum”
The technology either is or isn’t in a museum right now. Why say “would today be”. If it is you can say “technology that by now you can see in a museum” and if it isn’t you could say “expect to be in a museum”.
anyways, for those who don't have the patience, the title is misleading. it's just some old software from the 90s. It's only ancient if you're one of those people who completely rewrites their entire code base from the ground up every two years because to pad out your resume with whatever bullshit new "framework" is in vogue. Contrary to popular belief you actually can just keep using the same software indefinitely, it doesn't degrade with age, and for the most part the hardware lasts pretty long too as long as you take care of it (with a few exceptions like optical drives and SSDs).