> code, written in assembler, that may be 60 years old That would be 1958; at best a 7070, possibly something older. There's no 7070 emulator on modern hardware and a lot of IRS code was written for TPF, which didn't exist in 1958.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Joel C. Ewing <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 10:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: The IRS Really Needs Some New Computers I read the referenced article. The title was obviously written by someone who isn't sufficiently computer-literate to understand that a computer is hardware and that application code is NOT a computer. The text of the article flat out says the IRS has repeatedly updated hardware over the years. The reported problem is that it's still dependent on some code, written in assembler, that may be 60 years old and difficult to maintain. That's an entirely different problem than the title implies. Joel C Ewing On 04/17/2018 01:14 PM, Gerhard Adam wrote: > Nonsense, the IRS is running Z/13's , etc. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Apr 17, 2018, at 11:09 AM, Allan Staller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The IRS has been trying to upgrade both hardware and software for at least >> 30 years I am aware of. >> It keeps getting shot down by Congress in the appropriations process. >> >> The opposite of PROGRESS is CON...... >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin >> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 12:34 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: The IRS Really Needs Some New Computers >> >> Mostly historical: >> >> https://secure-web.cisco.com/1HUD7gS18J2SMvyHer13UGZYsxceOizT4D1VOqtoFD_825Nwi4JT_x6TKjOg2a64UARRNmGzasJv406vRVV6L21DtdaB6xLfwiL2_PjCIF4GiI8kpZ90mwEzoABARlgsrrwynvfHfsTsjpjusrvN6FLQJZBVCsQjQJj6ToGgDjL9uc_eVNjbVhQVgALPgEf7wg8Tm6VsFCXR7fiMRp2mzWpJ2ZGvP1eQcsAiLn5P5vopV3CwZN0LMp-o_YipIJqM4kFVeZ86Vet2c_wREKrRo7IUxOb9g20qyfAMGJ0phnxKVXFQ5qNRLOg9TLIwi4Ms-wpAxpeq8ZIdkgikMmR_rur1G8NhENvwxgr0ijz16gHe_inouMmY4S3SJf0hz9NFlZlnkvwrcATMKqgXbP1H-cA/https%3A%2F%2Fapac01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.bloomberg.com%252Fview%252Farticles%252F2018-04-17%252Fthe-irs-computer-system-is-the-oldest-in-the-government%26data%3D02%257C01%257Callan.staller%2540HCL.COM%257C792c5b7241dd415a210308d5a48970ff%257C189de737c93a4f5a8b686f4ca9941912%257C0%257C0%257C636595832636753536%26sdata%3DP6KLIEcmkgNFa4lZeymrTbaQ4XCmyBNo13loxSL1%252F9k%253D%26reserved%3D0 >> >> -- gil >> >> ... -- Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
