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...
  • Llewellyn@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    10 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·
      10 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·
        10 months ago

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