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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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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 can imagine, and sympathize with those dealing with it.

I still don't understand why an executive decision to convert away from Cobol never happens. I'd guess a lot of it could be written far more efficiently, in a modern language on modern and readily available equipment. The sheer number and size of those legacy programs plus program interdependencies may be the excuse, IDK.

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I think it is slowly making its way out. In '16 I was part of the team that built Amex's new internal cloud platform. That platform was designed as an in house test bed for the dev team to write their way out of the mainframe.

I moved on after it was all said and done, and all 10K vms moved form ESX to Openstack. But that was the stated goal of the project.

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I envisioned one would need to recreate all of the functionality separately from the legacy system because of the shortcomings of the legacy system not supporting newer languages - or compilers of modern languages not supporting the old architecture; it could not be done in a piecemeal program by program approach. It sounds like my assumption was accurate.