Show MPE how to change the times
In North America, the clocks fall back early Sunday morning. At 2 AM local time you’ll lose an hour in […]
HP’s 3000 worked on through its afterlife
When a worldwide string of parties commemorated the HP 3000 on Oct. 31, 2003, it would’ve been easy to think […]
Language lore keeps legacy know-how singing
During an era before clouds and apps, business software thrived on fourth-generation languages. If languages ran from bare metal to […]
Facebook crash reveals legacy’s DNS powers
On the morning of October 5, a massive chunk of the world’s social media went dark. Facebook, and all its […]
How to ALLOW contributed software to serve legacies
When James B. Byrne threw out a call for documentation for the ALLOW program from the Contributed Software Library for […]
Itanium lifespan proves legacy’s architecture has legs
In the theatre, a show that’s long-running is said to “have legs.” The term refers to the ropes running the […]
Wise about Bits
The HP3000 was the first mini-computer that supported time-sharing. It launched in 1972, and HP didn’t end-of-life it until 2010, […]
And now, HP’s Unix becomes a legacy solution
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise has issued dates to terminate support for two releases of its HP-UX Unix environment. Next year will mark […]
Legacy at Lund now includes tax fraud
From the 1980s onward, one software vendor was able to go toe-to-toe with Hewlett-Packard. A recent verdict from a US […]
Legacy protections extend to ransomware
Whether it’s a Swedish grocery chain, or a major healthcare IT datacenter, local servers everywhere are under attack. Cities and […]