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John F. Eldredge

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Oct 26, 2021, 9:52:29 PM10/26/21

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I am rereading the science fiction novel "A Fire Upon the Deep", and laughing again at one character's job title, "programmer archaeologist". His job was to go through libraries of old code and find useful routines. Since so much current-day programming involves updates to legacy code, it does have an archaeological feel at times.

Howard Coles Jr.

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Oct 30, 2021, 4:51:03 PM10/30/21

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So, if you spend a great deal of time upgrading Old Servers (RH Linux 3
to RHEL8 or AIX 4, 5 to 7.2) and saving old data, should you be called:
"Sr. Systems Archaeologist" (if you just have to maintain 'em you'd be a
"Sr. Systems Archaeologist Admin")?

Howard.