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Anyone using Rust on Linux workstation? I'm thinking about d/l the package and try it out. I Want to try manipulating CAT controls on radio transceivers.

Anyone using Rust on Linux workstation? I'm thinking about d/l the package and try it out. I Want to try manipulating CAT controls on radio transceivers.

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I bet those legacy Cobol programs were initially written in the 1960s-70s on punch cards! The banking industry had a lot of legacy Cobol too. My understanding 30 years ago was that there was an unfulfilled demand for Cobol programmers and they were being paid a premium over the industry average salaries. The reason was the computer industry had moved on, Cobol was no longer being taught and nobody wanted to get locked into ancient languages that had no future. Cobol wasn't shiny enough to attract people to forsake the latest and greatest thing.

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Gov cobol programmers are still making a premium if you can get into one of the jobs.

The old fuckers in them never leave and dont take promotions. So they rarely open. Death and retirement open them these days.

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I think I would go nuts with a job like that. I'd call it drudgery, same ol' shit, day after day. It would be far more interesting to convert the mess to C or C++. Measure performance improvements, cost effectiveness. Is govt running Cobol on seriously antiquated computers/mainframes - hard to source parts and equipment? Maybe there is a niche company supporting the old stuff that I'm not aware of? If so, they can about name their price.

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Then go compare the price for a powerPC box (AIX) and a standard x86 with VMWare licensing.

That's where they are selling for price point. AIX does LPAR (logical partitions, essentially a fucking VM with a different name). And that comes free as part of AIX...

What they dont tell you about, is licensing all of your addon (DB2, applications not included) AIX software by processor cores, the cost of ram, having to deal with one of the shittiest abortions of a website (IBM), the abysmal support....

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I think between gov & banking they are the people keeping AIX and HPUX alive. Everywhere else seems to have moved on.

I have never worked on a unix (not linux, thats everywhere including my home) outside of those 2 sectors.