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On point (3), virtualization beats backwards compatibility. You can create a much closer replica of the original environment, without creating compromises that
by rubinelli 13y ago
On point (3), virtualization beats backwards compatibility. You can create a much closer replica of the original environment, without creating compromises that may affect stability, performance, and security of your new system.
- rgbrenner 13y agoYou're going to create a virtualized replica of a system that is no longer supported, and that won't affect the security of your system??? Might want to rethink that one.
- rubinelli 13y agoWith proper sandboxing, it is safer than keeping deprecated, proven-unsafe APIs, and not even being able to fix bugs because some applications depend on them. In the worst-case scenario, you can restart the sandbox from a known-good snapshot. EDIT: I realize we may be imagining different scenarios. I was thinking about the example given, of running original DOS programs in modern computers.
- asveikau 13y agoThere seems to be a leap you've taken there. I don't think you've demonstrated that an old API is unsafe by virtue of being old. A platform company not wanting to maintain an API is not the same as that API being dangerous. This is the fallacy that some of the big guys have taken lately, to remove perfectly working stuff simply to be jerks.