@TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 3 months agoWhat old technology are you surprised is still in use today?message-square155fedilinkarrow-up1124arrow-down11
arrow-up1123arrow-down1message-squareWhat old technology are you surprised is still in use today?@TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 3 months agomessage-square155fedilink
minus-squareIAmTheKernelErrorlinkfedilinkEnglish9•3 months agoCan you say which application it is? Does it run on a mainframe? Any idea what language was used to program it? Sorry this is just quite interesting.
minus-squareSnot FlickermanlinkfedilinkEnglish29•edit-23 months agoI’m gonna hazard a guess at dd https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)
minus-square👍Maximum Derek👍linkfedilinkEnglish13•edit-23 months agoSnot Flickerman was right, it’s dd. It was in the docs I linked to show the commands. It runs on anything with storage devices and an operating system. I mainly use it on Windows servers running on AWS.
Can you say which application it is? Does it run on a mainframe? Any idea what language was used to program it?
Sorry this is just quite interesting.
I’m gonna hazard a guess at
ddhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)
Snot Flickerman was right, it’s dd. It was in the docs I linked to show the commands. It runs on anything with storage devices and an operating system. I mainly use it on Windows servers running on AWS.