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German railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systems (www.techspot.com)
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[–] Llewellyn@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 1 points 9 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

[–] Llewellyn@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

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