>Though the IRS has periodically upgraded its computing system, >today’s system is still running the same code, which was written >nearly 60 years ago.
Six years ago, they had job openings listed for 200 assembler programmers spread across a dozen cities. Guess maybe those people haven't installed a line of their code yet. > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 9:57 PM > From: "Joel C. Ewing" <jcew...@acm.org> > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: The IRS Really Needs Some New Computers > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
