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UK Government Department Still Runs VME Operating System Installed In 1974

Posted by Soulskill on from the change-is-scary dept.

Qedward writes: The UK government's Department for Work and Pensions is on the hunt for a new £135,000-a-year CTO, with part of their annual budget of £1 billion and responsibility for DWP's "digital transformation" to oversee the migration of the department's legacy systems which are still run on Fujitsu mainframes using the VME operating system installed in 1974.

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  1. Paging John Titor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    John Titor... Please report to... Oh, nevermind. Some bloke in a blue callbox has already claimed it.

  2. New Platform by Dr.+Evil · · Score: 5, Funny

    Port it to minecraft. There seems to be some good 1970's CS work happening there.