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For scientific software, the answer is clearly YES. I wrote a popular bioinformatics package -- FASTA -- originally on a VAX running Unix (in 1983) and a 8086/
by fastaguy88 8y ago
For scientific software, the answer is clearly YES. I wrote a popular bioinformatics package -- FASTA -- originally on a VAX running Unix (in 1983) and a 8086/CPM system, next on an Intel 2086 and Mac/68000 later PPC, moving it on to Sun/Sparc, MIPS, HP (whatever it was), and DEC/Alpha. The original version was not threaded, so porting from one environment to the next was mostly about declaring character types. The threaded version was a bit harder, but pthreads has served me well for more than 20 years. The programs also run fine on a Raspberry Pi. And there are Fortran based scientific packages that are much older.