• BearJCC@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Only a year ago I was doing tech support for DARPA. Yeah, no. they’re still running Windows 7. A year prior to that I was doing some design work for the Pentagon and a lot of their computers are still Windows XP. You’d be woefully surprised how much is still running on COBAL

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      1 year ago

      Government worker here too, can confirm our system runs on COBOL. The wizards who can program it have infinite job security.