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Two ways to look at this. 

Either, mainframe software is so insanely rock solid that companies can successfully run incredibly important business on it decades later. 

Or, banking is so terrifyingly out of date that it’s running software effectively built in the 1960s.

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I once got a bank statement where the watermark of the software issuing it was something like 2007.

Fun time, and that’s just the application layer

Software used to be more reliable when it wasn’t dependency hell and AI slop 🙃

Also AS/400s are stupidly rock solid. I crashed one early into my career when running the JVM and two support people came onsite to debug the issue and make sure that we had the right communication of OS patches installed. Banks love that level of support.

The true horror of the world is that the banking system is still underpinned by systems that ftp CSV text files between each other. 

If you are really lucky they use sftp and `gpg` the text file.