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WHO, ME? Comedian W.C. Fields is credited with the aphorism "Never work with children or animals," which The Register mentions because half of it has some relevance to this week's edition of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column chronicling the ups and downs of working in tech.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Stockley" who shared a horror story that took place in the 1990s.
At the time, Stockley worked for a company that ran an IBM RS/6000, one of Big Blue's brood of Unix machines.
"The business was run on BASIC, with code going back 25 years," Stockley wrote. When much of that software was written, memory was measured in kilobytes. "Programs had to be broken into chunks, which were called sequentially with the CHAIN command," he told Who, Me?
The company's tech may...
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