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I work in aerospace. We have a large group of people dedicated to archiving software. When we send them something to archive, we need to provide not only the so
by tjr 8y ago
I work in aerospace. We have a large group of people dedicated to archiving software. When we send them something to archive, we need to provide not only the software itself, but also provide (or provide a link to a previous archive of) all related libraries, build tools, compilers, operating systems, etc.
The idea is that absolutely anything could be rebuilt, if needed.
Not sure what they do for old development hardware! An interesting question, if you can't run Windows 3.1 on the latest Dell, or whatever. (Or... VMS...) Virtual hardware, perhaps?
- _trampeltier 8y agoJust run the old OS in a VM. But that's usually not the real problem. Often there are some old special hardware interface cards somewhere inside from the old machines.