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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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