On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 22:47:33 +0000, Nash, Jonathan S. wrote: >IRS - 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day >Due to New Hardware > >By Aaron Boyd and Frank Konkel >April 19, 2018 06:02 PM > >https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2018/04/irs-60-year-old-it-system-failed-tax-day-due-new-hardware/147598/ > >Congress and watchdogs have been warning the IRS to upgrade >its systems for years. > >The Ieternal Revenue Service attributed the agency’s Tax Day >crash to a piece of hardware supporting an IT system that is >almost 60 years old. > >Called the Individual Master File, components of the system - >including 20 million lines of computer code—date back to 1960, >when John F. Kennedy was president. ... > “There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.” ― C.A.R. Hoare
Of course, it's much the fault of the Tax Code. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
