The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore

Re:The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore by jacquesm on Sunday December 03, 2023 @08:17PM (#38512622)

I think you get it now though. I've seen this whole industry up close for the last 40 years or so and it's absolutely incredible how we went from a machine with 32 M of RAM and 300 M of storage sufficient to serve 1400 branch offices of a bank to a phone with a very large multiple of that, that can barely serve a single user.

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Re:The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore by snotrockets on Monday December 04, 2023 @01:15AM (#38514201)

That phone does a lot more than the bank mainframe used to do.

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Re:The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore by jazzyjackson on Monday December 04, 2023 @02:06AM (#38514457)

> iphone hangs while trying to match "blu" up with "bluetooth settings"

So many background tasks, much computation

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Re:The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore by g805 on Monday December 04, 2023 @01:46AM (#38514345)

"Busy" and "useful" are entirely different things. Maybe all that extra capability would be better spent elsewhere.

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Re:The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore by mrweasel on Monday December 04, 2023 @02:24AM (#38514543)

That is some thing that I can't stop thinking about. I get that banking software does more, like online banking, larger transaction volume, more account and loan types, but why is it that we can not run a small to medium bank on a single modern CPU and 1TB of memory?

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Re:The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore by jacquesm on Monday December 04, 2023 @03:28PM (#38522587)

Eye candy. Endless abstraction layers.

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