> adapting new machines to behave like old ones There is a great DailyWTF somewhere about a company that was using an early IBM mainframe, which when it died,

> adapting new machines to behave like old ones There is a great DailyWTF somewhere about a company that was using an early IBM mainframe, which when it died, instead of porting their code to the newer mainframe, the wrote an emulator. And when AIX came around they wrote a mainframe emulator to run their old emulator... This maybe the story I was misremembering the details of?: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/No_Need_to_Change_It!_ https://thedailywtf.com/articles/No_Need_to_Change_It!_