[PLUG-TALK] Old languages never die ... they are sent to govenments

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2020, Mel wrote:

> After IBM bought Sequent and I had trained my replacements, they had me
> working on check sorters. They were using OS2 Warp. Basically rebranded
> W95.

While states encourage everyone to buy a new vehicle because it's more fuel
efficient they continue trying to run the government with the hardware and
software equivalents of Yugos, if not Nash Metropolitans, or Ford Edsels.

I remember reading a news article in the late 1990s that the Navy was using
NT4 to run fire control systems on its ships. "Stop shooting at us! We need
to reboot our fire control computers!" Blue screen of death, indeed.

Feh!

Rich