I read the referenced article. The title was obviously written by someone who isn't sufficiently computer-literate to understand that a computer is hardware and that application code is NOT a computer.
The text of the article flat out says the IRS has repeatedly updated hardware over the years. The reported problem is that it's still dependent on some code, written in assembler, that may be 60 years old and difficult to maintain. That's an entirely different problem than the title implies. Joel C Ewing On 04/17/2018 01:14 PM, Gerhard Adam wrote: > Nonsense, the IRS is running Z/13's , etc. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Apr 17, 2018, at 11:09 AM, Allan Staller <allan.stal...@hcl.com> wrote: >> >> The IRS has been trying to upgrade both hardware and software for at least >> 30 years I am aware of. >> It keeps getting shot down by Congress in the appropriations process. >> >> The opposite of PROGRESS is CON...... >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On >> Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin >> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 12:34 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> Subject: The IRS Really Needs Some New Computers >> >> Mostly historical: >> >> https://apac01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fview%2Farticles%2F2018-04-17%2Fthe-irs-computer-system-is-the-oldest-in-the-government&data=02%7C01%7Callan.staller%40HCL.COM%7C792c5b7241dd415a210308d5a48970ff%7C189de737c93a4f5a8b686f4ca9941912%7C0%7C0%7C636595832636753536&sdata=P6KLIEcmkgNFa4lZeymrTbaQ4XCmyBNo13loxSL1%2F9k%3D&reserved=0 >> >> -- gil >> >> ... -- Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
