Re: Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
@Alain Williams .......
The term "software rot" used to be popular.
I have software on an old QIC .... Something tape. To recompile it my first challenge would be to find a working tape drive with drivers that will work on a system I access to. I then need to consider porting issues such as word lengths and as its low level code the big/little endian issues, none of which was built into the source as I never expected to port it. Unfortunately my tape doesn't have source of all he libraries and runtime environment so linking to new libraries is going to be hard and some old horribly insecure system and library calls aren't going to be available so a certain degree of reimplementation will be required.
Never underestimate how hard it might be to resurrect old code.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
