It's a picture :(

http://int10h.org/images/text_mode_lives!.png

Pretty sure encoding it into DOM would take way too many elements and be unnecessarily slow to load.

Someone needs to write an ANSI to CSS converter that can work inline.

Oh the irony.

The irony that 25 year old terminals can render text better than a modern web browser?

At it's core, a browser is a fancy telnet client. How a site decides to present itself is up to the site author...

> institutional investors (i.e. pension funds)

I don't pensions funds would invest in Start-UPs since they have a low risk threshold.

>I don't pensions funds would invest in Start-UPs since they have a low risk threshold.

You seem to be mistaken. Here's a 2014 article titled "Behind the Venture Capital Boom: Public Pensions" from Bloomberg. Specifically, the article claims (sourcing a Dow Jones report) that "In 2014, they contributed 20 percent of the sector’s overall haul, down slightly from a 25 percent contribution in 2013." It's not that a massive fraction of each pension fund is in venture capital, but a sizable chunk of the money in venture capital is from pensions.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-09-23/are-publi...

People who don't know COBOL, IBM Mainframe or the industry write these type of articles.

You want to loose the hardware - there's a solution for that. You want to create modern web services over - there's a solution for that. You want to code in a modern IDE - there's a solution for that.

If the systems that use IBM Mainframe were using Amazon ECS or Azure... the same people would write articles about the lack of reliability of core servers like banking and airlines.

You forget the old customers have credit contracts that last 50 years which have business rules, implemented in mainframe software, which no one understands or knows.

You can't migrate that way. An Insurance company can do that (contracts usually last 1 year) but Banks can't.

Right, I didn't put in "and the few remaining accounts that can't be moved can stay on the old system"

It was more a suggestion of how to move to a new system at all.

What happens if the bank closes before those 50 years?

Programming in COBOL does not require a mainframe.

You're right.

I tend to think about what you need to learn to actually work in a IBM Mainframe environment which is greater than just learning the language.

I think you could use Hercules.

http://www.hercules-390.org

Yeap, it's true.

Me, COBOL in LinkedIn... Inflated offers via LinkedIn, Zero.

Same for Perl

I don't understand how this is news.

This entries are years old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Worldwide_Interban...

Unless stated otherwise, NSA is there, even here.

It's not a ban on DRM, just make provisions that DRM can't infringe on legal rights.

In others, you can rip DVDs for private use (private copies of copyright materials) by overcoming DRM technology is now protected by the law.