• thehatfox@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    The AS/400 platform is still alive and actively maintained by IBM so I’m told, although I think it goes under the Power Systems and IBM i brands now. I know several business still using them, with development teams still coding with RPG etc. Apparently there is also reasonable ecosystem of middleware to interface with more modern systems, and some sort of *nix compatibility layer to run more modern software on the platform.

    I’ve never touched one myself, but they are keeping a few greybeards I know in steady work.

    • al177@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Costco still runs stores on AS/400. Ever wonder what those all-text terminals are all over the store?