Tom's Hardware learned that candidates would oversee machines running 166 MHz processors with 8 MB of RAM, which are used to display important technical train data to...
  • Contend6248@feddit.deEnglish
    21·
    5 months ago

    Just make it from scratch?

    For sure there is so much useless shit in there, that’s why nobody gets their head around it anymore.

    • Llewellyn@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      Just make it from scratch?

      And miss some tricky edge cases, which were covered in old code?

      It’s a railroad. Those edge cases could be disastrous.

      • Contend6248@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Ok, keep it for the next 100 years and get custom build hardware which can run that stuff, that’s cheap and safe.

        Never touch anything

        • Llewellyn@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          No. What I mean is rewriting it part by part, not from scratch, but following the old algorithms as possible.