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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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