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Comment by dghlsakjg

6 hours ago

It’s also a solved problem combined with a risk averse industry.

COBOL on mainframes has worked reliably for decades. On the scale of what a bank will spend on operations the mainframe doesn’t really cost much.

Banks are sort of the canonical example of “no one ever got fired for buying ibm”.

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