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   Nanoraptor (nanoraptor@bitbang.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:16:11 JST Nanoraptor

   What’s the oldest compiled binary still running anywhere in the world right now?

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     bison ✅ (bison@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:16:45 JST bison ✅

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     @NanoRaptor i'd guess vim for fun
     but I know of an AMIGA 500 still running and a lot of COBOL is also still out there so... I dont have a real clue ^^"

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:16:45 JST Charlie Stross

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     @bison @NanoRaptor vim was released in 1991. There are plenty of running UNIX systems that are nearly 20 years older (on eg. PDP-11s). But that's nothing compared to banking IT systems running COBOL bookkeeping applications that go back to the early 60s or late 50s. And possibly some of the original SABRE code from 1960 is still running?

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(travel_reservation_system)

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     Eupeptic (eupeptic@meemu.org)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 02:51:18 JST Eupeptic

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     @NanoRaptor It's been a few years ago, now, but there was a famous job ad floating around. It was from General Electric, recruiting PDP-11 programmers.

     It was cheaper to hire such a person, than to retrofit a more modern processor to their *checks notes* nuclear power plants.

     Outside of that, I'd guess it might be the flight management computer in an early-1980s aircraft, that's never been upgraded. The pilot has to remember to look under "Yugoslavia" if they want to fly to Belgrade, or "East Germany" if they want to fly to Berlin.