Subj : A Call For COBOL Programmers
To   : Janis Kracht
From : August Abolins
Date : Wed Apr 08 2020 17:42:00

Hello Janis!

** 08.04.20 - 16:50, Janis Kracht wrote to All:

 JK>    In New Jersey, Gov.  Phil Murphy has put out a call for
 JK>    volunteers who know how to code the decades-old computer
 JK>    programming language called COBOL because many of the state's
 JK>    systems still run on older mainframes..


Hey..  I worked with COBOL back in the day!   But I wouldn't do any of  
that as a volunteer.  No way.   But I suppose someone might be willing to  
donate their time for that grunge work.

 JK>   ...43% of banking systems are built on COBOL and 95% percent of ATM  
 JK>   swipes rely on COBOL code.


I remember reading somewhere that most ATMs ran on OS/2 and even Linux and  
then switched to a Windows variant.


  ../|ug

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