On Saturday, 23 March 2019 10:23:08 AEDT JLWhitaker wrote:

> Big Iron. Seems the only computing platforms to have truly died are the 
> midrange from suppliers like DEC. Remember them?

They turned into Linux via DEC's Alpha platform, Sun, etc.  And I think the IBM 
"mainframes" have been running some version of Unix for a long time now.

> I'm also wondering about the software and languages. Are we talking COBOL and 
> others still?

I certainly hope not!  It's more likely to be Java in an Integrated Development 
Environment.

David L.

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