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Ghost in the DCL shell: OpenVMS, touted as ultra reliable, had a local root hole for 30 years

Christian Berger

"How many other old Oses run the central computing systems of major banks?"

I have one data point on that, and that's some bank having switched their old computer for a newer, Java-based solution and giving that old computer to a museum. (it was probably >20 years old at that point) The employees didn't like it because the old system was _much_ faster.

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