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I suspect 220B is quite an exaggeration, but there may be a difference between the number of unique lines of COBOL and the total number of uniquely deployed source instances. I wonder how many 80's era third party apps there are that are installed on 1000 different mainframes around the world. A couple hundred thousand lines x 1000 machines puts a dent in the 220B number.


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