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German railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systems (www.techspot.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just make it from scratch?

For sure there is so much useless shit in there, that's why nobody gets their head around it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Just make it from scratch?

And miss some tricky edge cases, which were covered in old code?

It's a railroad. Those edge cases could be disastrous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok, keep it for the next 100 years and get custom build hardware which can run that stuff, that's cheap and safe.

Never touch anything

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

No. What I mean is rewriting it part by part, not from scratch, but following the old algorithms as possible.