Living Fossils: Old Tech That Just Won't Die 388
jfruh writes "You might think that flat files, VAXen, and punch card readers are things of the past — and you're right, for the most part. But here and there, these fossilized technologies have found places where they can survive in production use."
IE6 (Score:5, Funny)
I thought this was going to be about IE6
Re:Flat Files FTW! (Score:3, Funny)
If XML isn't fixing your problems, you must not be using enough of it...
Re:Technology (Score:5, Funny)
EDI can be embedded in XML before storing it in your SQL database. I'm sure there's a Java library for doing this.
Re:Technology (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, goddam Krauts, what do they know about making cars? Half of them have the engine at the wrong end.
Re:Technology (Score:4, Funny)
My PDP-10 laughs at your VAX (Score:4, Funny)
Still runs as it did the day it was shipped.
Remember children, if it's not 36 bits, you're not playing with a full DEC!
Re:Technology (Score:5, Funny)