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Re: NASA Had To Bring in the OLD Guys to Fix Hubble Telescope - Broader Message ?

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On 29/06/2022 01:17, 25.BZ959 wrote:
> On 6/28/22 11:31 AM, Joerg Lorenz wrote:
>> Am 28.06.22 um 16:40 schrieb 25.BZ959:
>>> https://www.dw.com/en/james-webb-space-telescope-just-a-huge-thermal-camera/a-62236601 
>>>
>>>
>>> (incidental)
>>>
>>> Computer glitch solved
>>
>> Wrong group.
> 
>    Nope. Technology/computer issue of note and most of
>    our infrastructure runs on Linux/Unix these days.
>    Or do you just think you write it and forget it ?
>    YOU might forget it, but 'the world' may be STUCK
>    with it for years or decades and have no answer
>    for what happens when it breaks.
> 
>    Only a few years ago, a design/programmer I knew got
>    a job with a govt institution. They had one demand,
>    that he learn how to program/maintain their COBOL
>    software base which took care of the accounting and
>    scheduling and a few other vital things. They had
>    the budget in the 60s to develop all that - and now
>    did NOT have the budget to re-do it in some other
>    language. It WORKS, and if it STOPS working it's a
>    total disaster.
> 
>    So far as I know, you can still get emulators for IBM 360/370
>    boxes (from IBM) so you can run that VERY old software. I
>    doubt anybody is literally running a 360 box, but there MAY
>    be a few 370 series boxes still out there.
> 
>    Old software/hardware sometimes DOESN'T just go away.

True conservatism says if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Quite frankly 99% of all correspondence could be happily written in 
wordstar under CP/M

Only the drive for planned obsolescence forces changes for profit, not 
for a better user experience or more efficiency.

There is no worse input device than a touch screen.

There is no cheaper device, either.

-- 
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to 
rule.
– H. L. Mencken, American journalist, 1880-1956

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