Does it? It sounds like this software has been doing just fine for longer than most of us here have been alive. Interesting that your preconception has not be

Does it? It sounds like this software has been doing just fine for longer than most of us here have been alive. Interesting that your preconception has not been challenged by this obvious counterexample. The hardware is eventually going to give out, which might require a change to software, but the software itself is clearly fine and doesn't need mucking about.